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Biyi Bandele-Thomas

BIYI BANDELE-THOMAS

  (1967 - )
Nationality:    Nigerian
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below is a list of Biyi Bandele-Thomas's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Brixton Stories         Death Catches the Hunter         Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D         Marching For Fausa         Me And the Boys         Oroonoko         Rain         Resurrections In the Season Of the Longest Drought         Senora Carrar's Rifles         Things Fall Apart         Two Horsemen

Brixton Stories

Brixton Stories
Snapshot of south-west London life including an uplifting portrayal of pure, uncomplicated family happiness.
Fiona Mountford, evening Standard

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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413771810

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Death Catches the Hunter

Death Catches the Hunter
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1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>     1995

Organisations:
Wild Iris

1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford,    978-1872868158

Music:
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Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D

Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D
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.

Notes:
devised by Told by An Idiot And Biyi Bandele-Thomas

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Organisations:
Told By an Idiot Theatre Company

1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413771810

Music:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Marching For Fausa

Marching For Fausa
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1993   978-1872868103

Music:
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Me And the Boys

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Contained in: "Death Catches the Hunter" published by Amber Lane   -

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Oroonoko

Oroonoko
: "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
- press release

Notes:
from Aphra Behn Novella

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford,    978-1872868257

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rain

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Resurrections In the Season Of the Longest Drought

Resurrections In the Season Of the Longest Drought
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1st Produced:
Cochrane, London     1994

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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1994   978-1872868134

Music:
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Senora Carrar's Rifles

Synopsis:
Carrar must choose: protect her sons or back the resistance. a pocket political thriller.
the theatre List

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Part of the Big Brecht Fest: Brecht Double Bill 2

1st Produced:
Young Vic Maria, London >>>     20 Apr 2007

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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Things Fall Apart

Synopsis:
story of how one man's courageous stand against colonialism leads to his own downfall

Notes:
Original Playwright - Chinua Achebe

1st Produced:
Quarry, West Yorks     1997

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Two Horsemen

Two Horsemen
Two men in a hut they talk, argue change personalities. . .

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1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1994
in Best Of the Fest, ed. Phil Setren, Aurora Metro Press, London, UK>>>, 06 Jun 1998   978-1872868127

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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