Gone Too Far!

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Bloomsbury Academic, Feb 2, 2007 - Drama - 82 pages

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters?

When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival, Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. portraying a world where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given.

Set on a London housing estate it depicts the experience of young multicultural Londoners and the issues of identity and culture that both unite and divide the characters.

Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre as part of its Young Writers Festival on 2 February 2007. It was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.

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Bola was a member of the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre and her first play, GONE TOO FAR!, premiered there in February 2007, directed by Bijan Sheibani. The production won a 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs for a sell-out run. Bola's second full play, Detaining Justice is currently playing at the Tricycle Theatre as part of the Not Black and White season. She is also the current Pearson Playwright in Residence at Paines Plough, and she is adapting GONE TOO FAR! into a full-length screenplay for the UK Film Council and Poisson Rouge Pictures.

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