Belong
From: Thursday, 26th April 2012
To: Saturday, 26 May 2012
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Synopsis
Election lost, speeches made and controversy stirred - Kayode's hiding. He's not even answering the door to the cleaner, and Rita is not going to start getting out the Hoover in her designer heels. Escaping the political heat in London he flees to Nigeria - a British MP and a self-made man. Once there, he gets caught up in a whole new power game.
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Michael Coveney - 3 May 2012
Belong is what we all want to do, but the question is, where? Bola Agbaje’s Belong channels her familiar preoccupations with nationhood and identity in the career crisis of a middle-aged politician, Kayode, torn between England and Nigeria.
Kayode’s career as a British MP has gone belly-up in a twitter storm following alleged racist comments in a parliamentary election. He goes “home” to Nigeria, supposedly to rest up, but finds himself fighting corruption and standing for office in tribal costume.
As always with this writer – Belong is Agbaje’s third Royal Court play since she emerged from the Young Writers’ Festival with Gone Too Far! in 2007 – there’s a bright, hard edge to the short, sharp scenes, which cover a lot of ground in 90 minutes.
But the bones are perhaps a little too obtrusive: it’s time now for more flesh on the arguments, more detail in the charac...
Latest User Review
steveatplays - 23 May 2012:
In this frequently funny play, Britain is seen to be somewhat bad, but Nigeria is shown to be significantly worse. Lucian Msamati's Kayode displays more colours, comic and serious, than the actor evinced in Comedy of Errors (where he was a hilarious caricature) but to slightly less effect as the play merely highlights but does not truly penetrate the wretched corruption that grips Nigeria. Pamela Nomvete as Kayode's mother is very funny indeed. :)...
Cast
Lucian Msamati (Kayode)
Noma Dumezweni (Rita)
Jocelyn Jee Esien (Fola)
Pamela Nomvete (Mama)
Itoya Osagiede (Barman/Buchi/Police Commisioner)
Richard Pepple (Chief Olowolaye)
Ashley Zhangazha (Kunle)
Creative
Bola Agbaje (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Indhu Rubasingham (Director)
Ben Stones (Design)
Malcolm Rippeth (Lighting)
David McSeveney (Sound)
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