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- Book Synopsis
- lead deez boys right off deez streets uh violence streets uh anger lead deez boys on to dat promised land Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Book of Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged play that exposes the experiences of young Black men in a world that refuses to see them. Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu received its UK premiere at Kiln Theatre, London, 2020. 'A searing fusion of politics and poetry: playful, unsettling, blazingly angry and desperately sad.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Theatre for the heart and head, reinventing and complicating old stories to make them newly and fiercely relevant.' GUARDIAN 'Powerful scarcely begins to describe the impact of this play. It has a devastating force and a poeticism that dazzles.' THE TIMES
- About The Author
- Antoinette Nwandu is a playwright, who also writes for film & TV. Her play Pass Over (LCT3; Steppenwolf) was a NYT Critic's Pick and won a Lucille Lortel Award and a Jeff Award for Best Play. Pass Over had its UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London. A filmed version - directed by Spike Lee - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and at SXSW, and is streamed on Amazon Prime. Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate premiered at Victory Gardens in 2018, and her play Tuvalu, or The Saddest Song will premiere at The Vineyard Theater during the Spring 2020 season. Antoinette is under commission from The Denver Center, Ars Nova & Audible. Antoinette's writing has won the Whiting Award, the Samuel French Next Step Award, the Cullman Prize, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and spots on the 2016 and 2017 Kilroys lists. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and an Ars Nova Play Group alum, and her work has been developed and supported by The Sundance Theatre Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Ignition Fest, The Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Page73, PlayPenn, Southern Rep, The Flea, Naked Angels, Fire This Time, and The Movement Theater Company. In film & TV, Antoinette wrote for Season 2 of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It (Netflix), and is adapting the short story 'Wash Clean the Bones' for Amazon Studios from the collection Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571361762
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (01 August 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 93
- Weight
- 129 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 200 x 125 x 7 mm
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