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BIYI BANDELE-THOMAS (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: Nigerian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Biyi Bandele-Thomas |
Brixton Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Brixton Stories & Happy Birthday Mister Deka D", Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413771810 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1753 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Snapshot of south-west London life including an uplifting portrayal of pure, uncomplicated family happiness. | |||||
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Death Catches The Hunter | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | Wild Iris | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868158 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49502 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Told By An Idiot Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Brixton Stories & Happy Birthday Mister Deka D", Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413771810 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1754 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | devised by Told by an Idiot and Biyi Bandele-Thomas | |||||
| A haunting love story laced with delicious comedy. Collaborating with a writer for the first time, Told by an Idiot has commissioned the acclaimed Biyi Bandele. The commissioning of this new play marks a major development for the Company and fulfils a desire to tackle a text, from a writer we have long admired. In a place where time has stood still, Mister Deka D celebrates his birthday. A man, Trisk, and a woman, Lika, come together to confront their past, whilst doing all they can to avoid it. Meanwhile, Mister Deka D doesn't seem to realise what is taking place around him, in the same way that Trisk and Lika don't seem to notice Mister Deka D's presence. The genesis of collaboration between Biyi Bandele and Told by an Idiot comes from a mutual fascination with storytelling. The rich vein of humour that runs through Biyi's work is a particular area that the Company wishes to explore and challenge with its own approach of mixing comedy and tragedy. Ultimately to attempt the fusion of new writing and physical theatre feels like an exciting departure and a natural progression for Told by an Idiot. The play aims to focus as much on what is unspoken in a relationship as what is said, and creating a world where the smallest detail can prove to have the greatest resonance. Mister Deka D celebrates his birthday in a place where time has stood still. A man and a woman come together to confront their past, whilst doing all they can to avoid it. Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D is an intense, moving and comic look at the nature of love and the effect that the past has on the present. | |||||
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Marching For Fausa | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868103 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1755 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Me And The Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Death Catches The Hunter" published by Amber Lane | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98334 | |||
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Oroonoko | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868257 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1756 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | from Aphra Behn Novella | |||||
| : "Behn's 1688 Oroonoko is the first English novel to portray black Africans in a positive light. Her title character, Oroonoko, is a 'noble savage' who speaks twelve languages. When he is chopped into pieces for leading a slave rebellion, Behn's super-hero never flinches and dies smoking a pipe. . .But in 1999, when the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned Nigerian author Biyi Bandele to adapt the Behn novella into a play, Bandele rejected Behn's Oroonoko as an idealization. Instead, he explores African identity and portrays Oroonoko and other black Africans as flawed and human | |||||
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Resurrections In The Season Of The Longest Drought | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cochrane, London | 1994 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868134 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1757 | |||
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Senora Carrar's Rifles | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Apr 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58965 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Part of The Big Brecht Fest: Brecht Double Bill 2 | |||||
Synopsis: | Carrar must choose: protect her sons or back the resistance. A pocket political thriller. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Things Fall Apart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Quarry, West Yorks | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1758 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Chinua Achebe | |||||
Synopsis: | story of how one man's courageous stand against colonialism leads to his own downfall | |||||
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Two Horsemen | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1872868127 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1759 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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| Two men in a hut they talk, argue change personalities& | |||||
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