Black T-Shirt Collection
From: Thursday, 12th April 2012
To: Tuesday, 24 April 2012
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Synopsis
From Fringe First winner Inua Ellams comes a new story about two brothers building a global t-shirt brand. On their journey from the markets of Nigeria to the sweatshops of China, Matthew and Mohammed discover what brotherhood really means.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 16 April 2012
Black T-Shirt Collection is an odd one: an intensely vivid and poetic seventy-minute monologue written and delivered by the bespectacled Inua Ellams that fails to cut the mustard as an evening of theatre and is frankly quite hard to follow if you don’t latch on to the language from the off.
Ellams, a Londoner born in Nigeria, is very good at mixing direct speech with reported action in the tale of two foster brothers building a global market for their T-shirt brand. Their journey from small town market to big business in Cairo takes them via various dodgy projects, homosexual encounters, bitter fall-out and finally to catastrophe.
But it’s not so much a show as a show-case for a talented writer mixing his jazz riffs with his bolshie hip hop, his narrative arcs with his flat-out declamations. There’s a sense all the time of difficulties back home, and nothing really goes right with the enterprise as a result.
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Cast
Creative
Inua Ellams (Author)
Fuel (Company)
Thierry Lawson (Director)
Michael Vale (Design)
Michael Nabarro (Lighting)
Emma Laxton (Sound)
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