Estate Walls
From: Tuesday, 21st September 2010
To: Saturday, 9 October 2010
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Synopsis
The play follows the story of Obi, a young writer who dreams of leaving the estate in which he lives. Told through rich, witty and lyrical street language, the story focuses on the young artist’s conflict between his ambitions and his friends, who are planning a heist in which Obi refuses to take part. Meanwhile, his love for a forbidden girl adds to the complexity of his life, making him soon to land into a whole world of problems.
Our Review:
6 October 2010
Battling brothers, a soaring love scene and a fool worthy of King Lear, Arinze Kene’s Estate Walls skips majestically between the epic and urban in a story that would feel as comfortable set against a Grecian palace as it does the grimy city wall of its title.
Three boyish men bat language around like marauding lion cubs, catching and throwing rhythms and rhymes with an undulating skill and energy that sweeps you away. They are old friends finally reunited by the return of the lean Cain, a hard edged youth back from jail. Making up this street triumvirate is motor mouth Myles, played with comic joie de vivre by Ricci McLeod, who swaggers around bigging up his beauty. All the while third member Obi scribbles quietly away in his notebook, occasionally showing his claws and credentials by shooting damning zingers in Myles’ direction.
Into this clique bombs the frenetic Reggie (a brilliantly precise Huss Garbiya), a crack addic...
Creative
Arinze Kene (Author)
Stef O'Driscoll (Producer)
Inner City Theatre (Company)
Che Walker (Director)
James Cotterill (Design)
Stef O'Driscoll (assistant) (Director)
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