Gone Too Far!

by Bola Agbaje

Overview

A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival and published as a programme text. Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. It was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780713686982
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/25/2008
Series:	Modern Plays
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Bola Agbaje is a playwright who graduated from the young writers programme at the Royal Court in 2007. Her first play Gone Too Far! was performed at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) in February 2007. In 2008, the play won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated Theatre. The play was revived in 2008 and returned for a run in the main Downstairs space at the Court, as well as at the Hackney Empire and Albany Theatre. Agbaje was also nominated for the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright of the Year in 2008. Other plays include Off the Endz and Belong.

Editorial Reviews

Agbaje has an astute eye and ear and offers a different perspective to her male counterparts.” —Guardian

“In her remarkable debut as a playwright Bola Agbaje walks two teenage black brothers around a dilapidated London council estate. She exploits their close encounters to give us a jolting lesson about the range of identities, beliefs and anxieties concealed beneath black or blackish skins.” —Evening Standard

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