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OLADIPO AGBOLUAJE |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited |
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Plays by Oladipo Agboluaje |
British-ish | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ipswich: New Wolsey Youth Theatre, UK | 03 Jun 2005 | ||||
Company: | New Wolsey Youth Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #54632 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | music by Pat Whymark; choreographer Rebecca Harbour | |||||
Synopsis: | "British is a nation, Labels, just confuse the situation, This Britishness, more British, Is what it seems to me". Dave, an English teenager from the countryside, meets streetwise urbanite Aisha on a journey of cultural self-discovery. This thought-provoking dynamic, highly physical and musically rich production has been devised by the Company, taking as their starting point the acutely topical question 'What does it mean to be British?' | |||||
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Captain Britain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ipswich: New Wolsey Youth Theatre, UK | - - - | ||||
Company: | Talawa | |||||
| 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 | #54634 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Children's Monologues, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Nov 2010 | |||||
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 | #122364 | |||
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Genre: | short monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Dramatic Need (DN) is a UK-registered charity that sends international arts professionals to do workshops in underprivileged and rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Gifted, heavyweight actors will perform monologues written by Lynn Nottage, Bola Agbaje, Polly Stenham, Dennis Kelly, Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Oladipo Agboluaje, Zawe Ashton, Joel Horwood, Anya Reiss and Jamie Minoprio, based on autobiographical stories written by the some of the children DN works with. | |||||
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Christ Of Coldharbour Lane, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 31 May 2007 | |||||
Company: | Soho Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840027851 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66224 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A revolutionary preacher begs the crowds to 'abandon the wilful peace' that keeps them down. He hies to make them believe that things could be different. But when people pray only for a brand new car or a large KFC bucket, the citizens of Brixton need a miracle to happen . . . | |||||
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Early Morning | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 Mar 2003 | |||||
Company: | FutureTense | |||||
| 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 | #260 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Early one morning in the City of London, dissent in the ranks reaches fever pitch. Ojo, Kola and Mama Paul decide they have had enough of picking up other people's rubbish. But they're not going to strike - they're going to start the revolution. And the revolution starts Right Now. Early Morning is a vibrant satirical comedy about three Nigerian office cleaners who mount a coup to take over the world. Based on personal experiences, Early Morning is a joyous and colourful mix of Yoruba and English popular theatre that both vents the frustrations of London's Nigerian community and celebrates its valuable contribution to London life | |||||
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Estate, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ipswich: New Wolsey Theatre, UK | 11 May 2006 | ||||
Company: | Tiata Fahodzi (theatre of the emancipated) | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54631 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A powerful yet comic tale of explosive family secrets and the dead hand of a corrupt patriarchy. Inspired by Chekhov but set in contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, Chief (Mrs) Adeyemi is engulfed in burial arrangements for her recently deceased husband, an influential entrepreneur with an extended family scattered across the globe. His children arrive from abroad to hear their father's Will. As they divide his estate an unnatural turn of events takes place and sparks begin to fly. | |||||
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For One Night Only | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Hawth, Crawley, West Sussex | 07 Oct 2005 | ||||
Company: | Pursued By a Bear | |||||
| 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 | #54633 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of Footprints in the Sand | |||||
Synopsis: | follows Eddie and Bode, nely arrived on fake passports, and their attempt to get to Covent Garden and find fame as African drummers. | |||||
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Garbage King, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, More London, Southwark, London SE1 2HZ >>> | 30 Sep 2010 | ||||
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 | #121101 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | from the book by Elizabeth Laird | |||||
Synopsis: | When Mamo meets Dani in a graveyard in Addis Ababa, he sees a spoiled little rich boy. To someone whos been abandoned on the city streets and forced to flee child-traffickers, it seems that only a fool would run away from such a privileged life. But the two runaways turn out to have more in common than they first imagine, and soon strike up an unlikely friendship. And when the struggle for survival draws them into a street gang, they rapidly find themselves entirely dependent on their ties to their gang-mates, and one another. | |||||
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God Is A DJ | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oval House Theatre, 52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW >>> | 29 Nov 2006 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Centre | |||||
| 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 | #68902 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Synopsis: | Hard Rock, Hip Hop, Trip Hop, R and B, Country, Punky, Funky, Folk, Soul not forgetting Rock and Roll. Nothing touches us like music, everyone everywhere feels something. Fasten your seatbelt for a journey into sound, the globe-trotting musical ride of your life. The politicians play "DJ" day after day, spinning you their remix, their cut, their tracks. Brutality, desperation, exploitation - grinding to the beat. Created by artists from Nigeria, the US and the UK, God is a DJ fuses music, text, visuals and movement to tell a powerful tale of people betrayed by their dreams. | |||||
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Hounding of David Oluwale, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds: Courtyard Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, England, EUR >>> | 2009 | ||||
Company: | WYP, the New Wolsey Theatre and Birmingham Rep as part of the Eclipse Theatre Initiative | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840029024 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86355 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Through The Hounding of David Oluwale, an adaptation of Kester Aspden's critically acclaimed text, Agboluaje uses carefully selected accounts of Oluwale's life to reveal how an optimistic and much loved showman who loved to dance, became the tragic victim of police persecution and brutality. | |||||
| 4 May 1969, the body of David Oluwale is pulled from the River Aire in Leeds. Eighteen months later, the investigation into his death ripped apart the police force, exposing the dark side of the shiny, new city in which he died. As police broke ranks to expose the two officers eventually prosecuted for involvement in Oluwale's death, the horrific details emerged; of how an optimistic, ambitious Nigerian had arrived in the UK, only to become the destitute victim of police brutality. | |||||
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Iya-ile (The First Wife) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 May 2009 | |||||
Company: | Tiata Fahodzi and Soho Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840029253 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95920 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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| Lagos, 1989. Political hysteria and social change are sweeping Nigeria. Chief Adeyemi's wife Toyin is turning forty and, behind the mansion walls, the household is preparing for her party. Their troublesome sons, back from college, are more interested in seduction and starting revolutions that their parents' disintegrating marriage. Meanwhile Helen, the ambitious housegirl, is waiting for her chance&Prequel to 'The Estate'. | |||||
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Knock Against My Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Centre, London | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Centre with Nos do Morro | |||||
| 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 | #90337 | |||
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Genre: | 60 min drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | It takes its inspiration from Shakespeare's The Tempest but, though its characters carry the names of Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Antonio, has only the very slightest connection with it. Prospero, as in Shakespeare's play, is a possessive and protective father to daughter Miranda but no banished Duke. "Why do you knock against my heart?" asks Miranda, "when ail I ask is that you love me?" Prospero seems to have left the city because his family's business has failed due to his brother Antonio's mismanagement. Now he is making himself a power base in the countryside by outwitting the indigenous population. "I am the biggest employer," he declares. "I brought civilization to this backwater." But he is not a beneficent figure: he has plans to pump away the river water and, by controlling water, gain control of the land. He is up against Caliban, a Candomble priest, at one with the environment and a defender of his people and their land. Prospero is also exploiting his brother with promises he never intends to keep. Antonio meanwhile encourages Miranda to break free while trying to outwit his brother, and Miranda and Caliban are in love. | |||||
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Mother Courage and her Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eclipse Theatre | 2004 | ||||
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 | #41294 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. A West African Adaptation | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Road Taken, The - Tiata Delights | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Aug 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | An earlier form of The Road Taken was published in the London Metropolitan University's The Next Wave Anthology of Student Writing 1998. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122365 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Road Taken is an existential comedy about recklessness on the roads in Nigeria and its consequences | |||||
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Rough Cuts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>> | 22 Jun 2010 | ||||
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 | #22727 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
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Notes: | Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond to the 2010 Election | |||||
Synopsis: | Ten of Britain's leading playwrights respond to the 2010 General Election. Five nights of ten minute short plays at Theatre Local, Elephant and Castle. Tue 22 & Thu 24 June at 7pm featuring plays by April de Angelis, Tim Crouch, Michael Wynne, Dipo Agboluaje and Leo Butler. Wed 23 & Fri 25 June at 7pm featuring plays by Alia Bano, Michael Bhim, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Martin Crimp and Emma Crowe. Sat 26 June at 7pm featuring all plays by the ten writers. Hung Over takes place as part of Rough Cuts, the Royal Court's annual season of work-in-progress, experimental pieces, readings and shorts. Rough Cuts emerges from the year-round activities of the Studio, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to develop ideas collaboratively, experimentally and informally. | |||||
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Set Piece | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #99663 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Notes: | Part of Soho Theatre's season "Everything Must Go" Short rapid response pieces relating to the economic crisis. | |||||
Synopsis: | an uptight young British director and an egotistical Nigerian actor are in Lagos trying to film a no-budget thriller - the first "Nollywood" crossover hit - about corporate corruption and the banking crisis. Their backer pulls out, but they have the brainwave to avoid engineering an expensive set piece by simply using the carnage and mayhem around them as their backdrop. Jimmy Akingbola, good in many roles, is particularly great here as the booty-shaking would-be star. | |||||
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Unzipped | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Apr 2009 | |||||
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 | #122366 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Accessibility vs. Authenticity: Do We Sell Out to Sellout?(Thu)/Storytelleror History Maker: Who Do You Think You Are?/Post Multi-Culturalism: What Colour Are You Now? Talawa's Writer's Group (TWG) returns with Unzipped 2009, an unmissable season of play readings and impassioned discussion. This year Talawa has worked with Britain's most established Black and Asian playwrights to push writing boundaries. The Group includes, amongst others, Roy Williams, Malorie Blackman, Dipo Agboluaje and Kwame Kwei-Armah. In return these writers will share excerpts of their most exciting work for Unzipped 2009. This will be an unforgettable series of readings that will explore the future of Black and Asian theatre as thewriters and their work seek to answer key questions facing the industry. Now in its fourth year, Unzipped has become an unforgettable and provocative event. Expect unusual stories and controversial opinions. Book early to avoid disappointment. | |||||
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