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Gabriel Gbadamosi

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With a rich heritage that comes from being both black and irish, Gabriel is a poet, essayist and playwright. He founded the Irish Irregulars Theatre Company and acted as literary director for the Siol Padraig Irish Arts Festival. He was Mobil Writer-in-re

Plays by Gabriel Gbadamosi

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Gabriel Gbadamosi Abolition

Company

Paines Plough Theatre Company, London >>>

Synopsis:

A slave ship gets into difficulties during the battle for abolition of the slave trade.

First Produced

1989 Young Vic Theatre, London >>>

First Published

Genre

Play, 120 - 150 min

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Male

Female

Other

Notes

Arts Council Writers' Bursary (1987);

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Gabriel Gbadamosi Eshu's Faust

Company

Synopsis:

An African Faust enters a Christian church pursued by the powerful devil of his own culture.

First Produced

1992 Cambridge Arts Theatre and Faculty of English, Cambridge

First Published

Genre

Play, 90 min

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

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Gabriel Gbadamosi Hotel Orpheu

Company

Synopsis:

A black and a white Angolan flee the civil war in the hold of a fishing trawler; they land in Lisbon, stateless, dependent on each other and still fighting

First Produced

1994 Verlag Der Autoren, Frankfurt

First Published

Genre

Play, 90 min

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

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Gabriel Gbadamosi Oga's Ark

Company

: Commissioned by Nitro

Synopsis:

After their bus crashes, the survivors of an African theatre troupe rehearse a new version of their play The Animals are Taking Over, but most of lead actors are dead in the wreckage.

First Produced

First Published

Genre

Play, 120 min

Parts

Male

Female

Other

7-8

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Gabriel Gbadamosi Shango

Company

Synopsis:

West African tale of love, magic and violence bursting out of the young and old people left behind in a decaying community.

First Produced

1988 Mobil Writer's Bursary

First Published

Genre

Play, 90 min

Parts

Male

Female

Other

Notes

De Nieuw Amsterdam (1997)

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