The new scenic proposal of the National Theater of London for confinement was presented at 2019 en el Roundhouse, an iconic space where there is no scenario and the public completely surrounds the central area where the work takes place. Barber shop chronicles It is a piece based on that, In Barber Stories, social centers where African men make a lot of life, They build community and discuss the world. In addition to cutting your hair, Of course. Jumping from a barber in the London neighborhood of Peckham to others by Johannesburg, Harare (Zimbabwe), Kampala (Uganda), Lagos (Nigeria) o Accra (Ghana), The Nigerian playwright Inua Ellams lets us peak our nose to a very particular ecosystem in which men drink, They tell jokes, Come football and talk about politics, children, music, racism and dictators, About the African diaspora, the barbarities committed by Europeans in their countries of origin and their experiences as Africans in the old continent. With humor and impudence, Ellams has proposed that we stop talking about Africa as a whole and that we undo stereotypes that reduce and simplify. Although, of course, There are cultural conditions that unite some of these men, The conclusion he wants to get us is that there are as many types of Africans as people. In it sketch Final a young boy goes to the London barber to cut his hair, He is an actor and is studying for a paper. “Who do you play?”, The hairdresser asks. "To a black man", It responds. Well that. S.M.
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There are no narrative concessions, but a writing of the body that goes from the sensual and tribal to the ethereal.
