This week we have a really special guest, Mojisola Adebayo. We discuss ‘Afri-Queer Theatre’, Black queer stories in theatre, climate change and colonisation. Mojisola discusses their play Moj of the Antarctic, which was performed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in 2006 and Wind/Rush Generations.
Mojisola Adebayo is a writer, playwright, poet, performer, workshop leader, facilitator, and educator. Moj is a prolific theatre-maker, and has worked on projects all around the globe, including, Brazil, Britain, India, Malawi, Norway, Palestine, Sweden, South Africa, Syria, the USA, and Zimbabwe. They have written many plays, which have been published in Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One: 1 and Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: 2.
Thanks so much to Mojisola for chatting with us!

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References:

Adebayo, M. (2011) Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One: 1. London: Oberon Modern Playwrights.

Adebayo, M. (2019) Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: 2. London: Oberon Modern Playwrights.

Adebayo, M., Mason-John, V., & Osborne, D. (2009). ‘No Straight Answers’: Writing in the Margins, Finding Lost Heroes, New Theatre Quarterly, 25(1), pp.6-21.

Chambers, C. (2011) Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. London & New York: Routledge.

Godiwala, D. (ed.) (2007) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Goddard, L. (2007) Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Goddard, L. (2015) Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream. Hampshire, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Johnson, E. P., Henderson, Mae, G. (2005) Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. DUP

Moll, E. (2015) "Gender, Authenticity, and Diasporic Identities in Adebayo's "Moj of the Antarctic" and Iizuka's "36 Views"." Comparative Drama 49, no. 2: pp.191-224.