Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One

Includes the plays Moj of the Antarctic, Desert Boy, Matt Henson: North Star and Muhammad Ali and Me This 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 Critics Choice The language is rich and densely poetic. Reveling in the materiality and playfulness of words, cracking open complex ideas like eggshells. - Total Theatre Magazine Muhammad 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 heros fight against racism and the Vietnam war. As a piece of stagecraft, an entertaining kaleidoscope of social and political history, only one description will do: this is a play that floatslike a butterfly and stings like a bee. - WhatsOnStage Desert Boy, a time-travelling a capella musical, offers a sharp twist on the subject of knife crime, black youth and absent fathers. a spiralling journey through colonial history not unlike Dantes introduction to the Inferno. The juxtapositions are sometimes startling, and often quite comic. - 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.