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Banged Up
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Foco Novo Theatre Company
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Consequences
Synopsis:
eight playwrights play consequences in the 21stC as a last gasp for Foco Novo, killed by the government and the Arts Council
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written with Brenton, Dunn, Griffiths, Sobol, Williams, Wilson, Wymark
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Croydon 1988
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Colaboration
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Male: 7 Female: 1 Other: -
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Duckin'N'divin'
Synopsis:
when a local, now a rock star, returns to make a promotional video in his old tower block home, the racially mixed tenants band together to express individual aspirations and incidently discover a sense of community.
- Martin Hoyle, Financial times
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play by Tunde Ikoli, music by Paddy Cunneen, lyrics by Bob eaton
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Goin' Local
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Lower Depths
Synopsis:
pre revolution Russian life in a Moscow lodging house
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Original Playwright - Maxim Gorky
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Foco Novo Theatre Company
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in "Brewster, Yvonne (Comp.), Black Plays: One" Methuen, London, 1989 -
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adaptation
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On the Out
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Foco Novo Theatre Company
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Please And Thank You
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written with Soul Night under title Banged Up
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Scrape Off the Black
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examines mixed-race relationships and peoples' attitudes to skin colour. London's east end 1973. Trevor organises a surprise party on the release of his brother andy from Borstal. Bu Rose, his bingo-playing, pill-popping mother, has other plans. . .
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- 1977
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in "Brewster, Yvonne (Comp.), Black Plays: Three" Methuen, London, 1995 -
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Comedy
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Short Sleeves In Summer
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- 1974
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Sink Or Swim
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1st Produced:
London Tour And Tricycle Theatre 1981
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Foco Novo Theatre Company
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Sleeping Policeman
Peckham, in South London, through the eyes of six of its inhabitants
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Written by Tunde Ikoli and Howard Brenton
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Foco Novo Theatre Company
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Soul Night
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- 1985
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Wall Of Blue
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part of Breach of Peace
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- 1982
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Week In, Week Out
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1st Produced:
London Tour And Soho Poly, London 1985
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Foco Novo Theatre Company
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