Book description
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. Bola Agbaje is a young writer in whose first
play, Gone Too Far!, she explores the experience of young Nigerians
living in London.
