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GABRIEL GBADAMOSI
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Literary Agent: MBA Literary Agents Ltd
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-residence at the Manchester Royal Exchange and has been involved in play writing internationally.
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Abolition Eshu's Faust Hotel Orpheu Oga's Ark ShangoAbolition
Synopsis:
a slave ship gets into difficulties during the battle for abolition of the slave trade.
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arts Council Writers' Bursary (1987);
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120 - 150 min Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: 5+
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Top of PageEshu's Faust
Synopsis:
an African Faust enters a Christian church pursued by the powerful devil of his own culture.
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Cambridge Arts Theatre and Faculty of English, Cambridge 1992
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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: 8+
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Top of PageHotel Orpheu
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
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Verlag Der autoren, Frankfurt 1994
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90 min Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: 2
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Top of PageOga's Ark
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.
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: Commissioned by Nitro
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Genre:
120 min Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: 7-8
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Top of PageShango
Synopsis:
West African tale of love, magic and violence bursting out of the young and old people left behind in a decaying community.
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De Nieuw Amsterdam (1997)
1st Produced:
Mobil Writer's Bursary 1988
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Genre:
90 min Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: 6+
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