By Bola Agbaje (author) Part of the Plays for Young People series
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Winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters?
When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.
A debut work produced at the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival, Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture, portraying a world where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given.
Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007 where it was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.
It is published here in an abridged form as part of Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series, aimed at 16-18 year olds.
The play is now a set text on the Edexcel GCSE Drama syllabus.
A Preview of Gone Too Far! is available here.
'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
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 .
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Winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from?
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Gone Too Far! - Plays for Young People was written by Bola Agbaje and published by Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Gone Too Far! - Plays for Young People has 85 pages
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