Auteur: Ellams Inua Ellams

Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help …

Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help …

Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places …

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.Inspired in part by the …

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.Inspired in part by the …

It’s a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2. Protect who you love, what you care about; 3. Let nothing get in your way.Someone mugged Bruce’s mum and he is not having it. The shock is still …

It’s a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2. Protect who you love, what you care about; 3. Let nothing get in your way.Someone mugged Bruce’s mum and he is not having it. The shock is still …

Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places …

It s a simple idea, really.1. Wear a uniform2. Protect who you love, what you care about3. Let nothing get in your way Someone mugged Bruce s mum and he is not having it. The shock is still visible …

When we were young, we worshipped stars, gleaming long-limbed godsframed in the act of impossible flight.For a time we tried to follow, to carve out our own piece of skywith a butter-smooth arc of an …

1988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player.1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum.1995: was chased through jungle growth …

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.Inspired in part by the …

Inua Ellams has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in British and international theatre. Collected together for the first time are four of Ellams’ acclaimed plays, including …

Broken down in the Sahara Desert, a pilot meets an extraordinary Little Prince, travelling across time and space to bring peace to his warring planet.Inua Ellams’ magical retelling of the much loved …

Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War.Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. …

“The wild things they did with those tees. Some held together by wooden pins. Some strung to wear just once. Some of long thin detachable sleeves…” A T-shirt is something most people have. It …

In a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passerby helps him out of a tight …

To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future. If we let our children name themselves, will they author their own destinies? Will the nameless ones be free? Untitled is a magical …

A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son. One conflicted sister, and the second is on the run. This is a blistering retelling of Sophocles » epic story from the …

A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son. One conflicted sister, and the second is on the run. This is a blistering retelling of Sophocles » epic story from the …

Are you angry with policing or Polyneices? Them, we can change. He, is dead. Speak to Creon… Ask him to release Polyneices… we will bury him quietly, peacefully, together. A torn …

Are you angry with policing or Polyneices? Them, we can change. He, is dead. Speak to Creon… Ask him to release Polyneices… we will bury him quietly, peacefully, together. A torn …