I’m delighted to be working as dramaturg on two new projects. The first is with J B Rose, writer and producer for Tell Tarra and tells the story of two black female singers competing for success at opposing stages in their music industry careers.

The second is by Juliet Gilkes for Big Creative Ideas and travels back to the first world war and the uncovered story of the British West Indian Volunteers fighting for survival in the trenches of Gaza. More details will appear later on this page.

I hope 2007 treats you well and is a creative and prosperous year for you.

Neil

“One of the funniest plays I’ve ever seen is by Oladipo Agboluaje… savagely honest and viciously funny… The writing is also politically astute.” The Spectator

I worked on this production as dramaturg. A cross art-form collaboration between writer Oladipo Agboluaje and director and choregrapher Paul J Medford, it explored five very different but interwoven global stories. The play toured UK schools and played at the Oval House Theatre and Hackney Empire’s Acorn Theatre and was commissioned by the Theatre Centre.

“Fasten your seat belt and be prepared for the globe trotting musical ride of your life. God is a DJ takes you on an adventure across the continents into the past and back to the future.” For more info click the image below:

I worked on this production as dramaturg. Writer Segin Lee French and director Steven Luckie fused together Theatre of The Absurd, the modern musical and videogaming to create a high energy sex satire. The production played an English national tour in Autumn 2006

“Prepare to be transported into a world where fantasy meets reality. Who will win? Who will lose? only one way to find out – Load da game!”

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“Black British theatre has found an appealingly quirky voice in Nigerian Mancunian playwright Segun Lee Fren…You could call (Bootycall) a comedy of modern urban manners, except that manners are the last thing required of today’s would-be “bad bwoys”. The ruder the better – so learns the geeky teenage anti-hero, Jason, who, in a hybrid between videogame, fantasy and real-life, must advance through various levels to lose his virginity and become a ‘player’. The writing summons the full horror of modern adolescence, with white kids now desperately copying their black peers, but it does so with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, at least until the grim climax. Respect to director Steven Luckie and his cast.” Daily Telegraph