Cape

It''s a simple idea, really.1. Wear a uniform2. Protect who you love, what you care about3. Let nothing get in your waySomeone mugged Bruce''s mum and he is not having it. The shock is still visible in her trembling fingers, rippling out across the calm waters of their lives. He grabs his hoodie, his uniform, his cape and goes out to find the culprit. Smithy wants everyone to stay inside, Uhuru wants everyone out. Tanya thinks it''s boyish fun and games until, very suddenly, it isn''t.>

About the author

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross-art-form practitioner, a poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, designer and founder of the Midnight Run - a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency. Inua Ellams' previous plays at the National include The 14th Tale (Fringe First award) and Black T-Shirt Collection.

Other plays include The Riddler at Theatre503; Knight Watch at Greenwich + Docklands Festival; Mostly Like Blue for Islington Community Theatre; Cape at the Unicorn; The Long Song Goodbye at Battersea Arts Centre; Fastcuts and Snapshot at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Marsh Orchids & Concrete for China Plate; Reset Everything and An Evening with an Immigrant at the Soho; and Turned at Trafalgar Studios. Radio plays include The Ballad of Abdul Ha z and Wild Blood.

He has published three pamphlets of poetry 'Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars', 'Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales' and 'The Wire-Headed Heathen'. His poetry is published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches, and several plays by Oberon Books. His new book #Afterhours is published by Nine Arches Press. inuaellams.com

Summary

It’s a simple idea, really. Wear a uniform. Protect who you love. Let nothing get in your way.

Product details

• Authors: Inua Ellams, Inua (Author) Ellams, Ellams Inua
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2013
• EAN: 9781783190669
• ISBN: 978-1-78319-066-9
• No. of pages: 64
• Series: Oberon Plays for Young People; Oberon Modern Plays; Oberon Plays for Young People
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Africa, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, DRAMA / African, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ireland, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts