ePub The Hen Night Epiphany (Oberon Modern Plays) by Jimmy Murphy in Arts-Photography

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Includes the plays Moj of the Antarctic; Desert Boy; Matt Henson: North Star and Muhammad Ali and MeThis collection signals the emergence of a distinctive new voice on the British theatre landscape. Moj of the Antarctic is inspired by the true story of an African American woman who cross-dresses as a white man to escape slavery; taken on a fantastical odyssey to Antarctica. Time Out Criticsrsquo; Choicelsquo;The language is rich and densely poetic. Reveling in the materiality and playfulness of words; cracking open complex ideas like eggshells.rsquo; - Total Theatre MagazineMuhammad Ali and Me is a lyrical coming of age story; following the parallel struggles of a gay girl child growing up in foster care and the black Muslim boxing herorsquo;s fight against racism and the Vietnam war.lsquo;As a piece of stagecraft; an entertaining kaleidoscope of social and political history; only one description will do: this is a play that lsquo;floatslike a butterfly and stings like a bee.rsquo; - WhatsOnStageDesert Boy; a time-travelling a capella musical; offers a sharp twist on the subject of knife crime; black youth and absent fathers.lsquo;hellip;a spiralling journey through colonial history not unlike Dantersquo;s introduction to the Inferno. The juxtapositions are sometimes startling; and often quite comic.rsquo; - Guardian Matt Henson; North Star is a biographical tale of Arctic betrayal; mixed with Greenlandic folk tales; all about love; climate and change.These plays queer the boundaries of sex and race; fact and fiction; history and geography; poetry and politics to illuminate contemporary themes through a dynamic African Diasporic theatrical aesthetic that leaps off the page.