That Black Theatre Podcast: Mojisola Adebayo, Afri-queer theatre, climate change and colonisation.
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12/14/20 • 58 min
This week we have a really special guest, Mojisola Adebayo. We discuss ‘Afri-Queer Theatre’, Black queer stories in theatre, climate change and colonisation. Mojisola discusses their play Moj of the Antarctic, which was performed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in 2006 and Wind/Rush Generations.
Mojisola Adebayo is a writer, playwright, poet, performer, workshop leader, facilitator, and educator. Moj is a prolific theatre-maker, and has worked on projects all around the globe, including, Brazil, Britain, India, Malawi, Norway, Palestine, Sweden, South Africa, Syria, the USA, and Zimbabwe. They have written many plays, which have been published in Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One: 1 and Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: 2.
Thanks so much to Mojisola for chatting with us!
Email [email protected]
Social @nationaltheatre
References:
Adebayo, M. (2011) Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One: 1. London: Oberon Modern Playwrights.
Adebayo, M. (2019) Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: 2. London: Oberon Modern Playwrights.
Adebayo, M., Mason-John, V., & Osborne, D. (2009). ‘No Straight Answers’: Writing in the Margins, Finding Lost Heroes, New Theatre Quarterly, 25(1), pp.6-21.
Chambers, C. (2011) Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. London & New York: Routledge.
Godiwala, D. (ed.) (2007) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Goddard, L. (2007) Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Goddard, L. (2015) Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream. Hampshire, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Johnson, E. P., Henderson, Mae, G. (2005) Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. DUP
Moll, E. (2015) "Gender, Authenticity, and Diasporic Identities in Adebayo's "Moj of the Antarctic" and Iizuka's "36 Views"." Comparative Drama 49, no. 2: pp.191-224.
This week we have a really special guest, Mojisola Adebayo. We discuss ‘Afri-Queer Theatre’, Black queer stories in theatre, climate change and colonisation. Mojisola discusses their play Moj of the Antarctic, which was performed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in 2006 and Wind/Rush Generations.
Mojisola Adebayo is a writer, playwright, poet, performer, workshop leader, facilitator, and educator. Moj is a prolific theatre-maker, and has worked on projects all around the globe, including, Brazil, Britain, India, Malawi, Norway, Palestine, Sweden, South Africa, Syria, the USA, and Zimbabwe. They have written many plays, which have been published in Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One: 1 and Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: 2.
Thanks so much to Mojisola for chatting with us!
Email [email protected]
Social @nationaltheatre
References:
Adebayo, M. (2011) Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One: 1. London: Oberon Modern Playwrights.
Adebayo, M. (2019) Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: 2. London: Oberon Modern Playwrights.
Adebayo, M., Mason-John, V., & Osborne, D. (2009). ‘No Straight Answers’: Writing in the Margins, Finding Lost Heroes, New Theatre Quarterly, 25(1), pp.6-21.
Chambers, C. (2011) Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. London & New York: Routledge.
Godiwala, D. (ed.) (2007) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Goddard, L. (2007) Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Goddard, L. (2015) Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream. Hampshire, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Johnson, E. P., Henderson, Mae, G. (2005) Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. DUP
Moll, E. (2015) "Gender, Authenticity, and Diasporic Identities in Adebayo's "Moj of the Antarctic" and Iizuka's "36 Views"." Comparative Drama 49, no. 2: pp.191-224.
Previous Episode
That Black Theatre Podcast: 2000s, the 'state of the nation' & Roy Williams
This week we're continuing our discussion of the 2000s. We talk about how theatre can address the 'state of the nation', through the work of the brilliant playwright, Roy Williams. We were lucky enough to have an interview with Roy, who brilliantly discusses his plays 'Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads', 'Death of England' and 'Death of England: Delroy'. We discuss the connections between nationalism, football, race, class, and Brexit, which Roy's plays tackle with wit, humour and realism.
Born in London, Roy Williams is an award-winning playwright. He was the first winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for his play, 'Starstruck'. His third play for the Royal Court, 'Fallout', won the 2003 South Bank Show Arts Council Decibel Award. He is a prolific writer, whose most recent play with Clint Dyer, 'Death of England: Delroy', discusses what it means to be a Black British man in 2020, in the wake of political and social upheaval.
Thanks so much to Roy for chatting with us for this episode!
Email [email protected]
Social @nationaltheatre
References:
Roy Williams (2006) Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads. London: Methuen Drama.
Roy Williams and Clint Dyer (2020) Death of England. London: Methuen Drama.
Roy Williams and Clint Dyer (2020) Death of England: Delroy. London: Methuen Drama.
Akala (2019) Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire. London: Two Roads.
Mary F. Brewer, Lynette Goddard and Deirdre Osborne (2015) Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Colin Chambers (2011) Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. London & New York: Routledge.
Lynette Goddard (2015) Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream. Hampshire, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dan Rebellato (ed.) (2013) Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009. London: Bloomsbury.
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That Black Theatre Podcast: 2010s, Nine Night, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Jasmine Lee-Jones
This week we look at the last decade of Black British theatre and ask: have things really changed for Black theatre practitioners?
We focus on two different plays: Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night, which is the first play on record by a Black British woman to be transferred to London’s West End, and Jasmine Lee-Jones’ Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner. We talk about how Nine Night captured the imaginations of both Black and white audiences, portraying three generations of a Black British family in the wake of the 2018 Windrush ‘scandal’, while discussing death, racial politics and funeral rituals in Black communities that are often misunderstood in 21st century Britain. We were lucky enough to interview Jasmine Lee-Jones about her play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, which brings the fetishization of the Black female body and the appropriation of Black cultures to the forefront, all through the prism of Black women’s lives in the digital age of social media.
Thanks so much to Jasmine for chatting with us!
Go listen to #HalfcastPodcast!
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Email [email protected]
Social @nationaltheatre
References:
Gordon, N. (2018) Nine Night. London: NHB
Lee-Jones, J. (2019) Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner. London: Oberon Books
Chambers, C. (2011) Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. London & New York: Routledge.
Gentleman, A. (2019) The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment. London: Guardian Faber
Goddard, L. (2007) Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Goddard, L. (2015) Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream. Hampshire, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
McMillan, M (2007) ‘Aesthetics of the West Indian Front Room’ in V. Arana (ed) “Black” British Aesthetics Today. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.297-313
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