Gone Too Far!

Synopsis

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.

Our Review:

29 July 2008

After its short run in Sloane Square, Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far! – winner of an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre – goes on to play a few performances next month at the Albany in Deptford and the Hackney Empire. It will therefore have a chance to reach audiences for whom it is specifically targeted.

This is important. Agbaje’s first play appeared in the Court’s Upstairs theatre in February 2007 – director Bijan Sheibani has assembled exactly the same cast -- as a result of a specific project to raise new black voices within the Young Writers Programme. It is an immensely vivid piece about national identity among a group of street kids on a South London estate.

In some ways this is West Side Story writ small without music – except for the snake-like hoodie dance sequences – with inter-racial strife and a dangerous knife, and it is definitely about status in relation to your peers and your roots. Roots and weaves...

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Latest User Review

CAA - 12 August 2008:

Agree I felt that this was full of excellent performances from mostly a young cast. But it didn't seem to make the most of being on the main stage. ...

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