FULL FRONTAL stars Tunde Euba, known to Nigerian audiences as Akpan in CHECKMATE, a popular Nigerian soap opera for which he won a Hubert Ogunde Foundation Award for Best Actor. Tunde's theatre
credits include the title role in 5th Column's production of EQUIANO,
Tiata Fahodzi's MAKINDE, London Bubble's LORDS AND LADIES, The
No.1 tour of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TICKETS AND TIES at the Theatre
Royal Stratford East and Crooks in OF MICE AND MEN at Southwark
Playhouse. Tunde has also worked extensively in Nigeria, performing regularly with the PEC Repertory theatre in Lagos, in a variety of plays including WOZA ALBERT! SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD. and DUTCHMAN.
FULL FRONTAL is written by Michael Hastings who has himself revised the play twenty years after its first production. Michael Hastings first two novels, THE GAME, and, THE FRAUDS, were about British-Caribbean and African mixed-race lives in Brixton. The novels were published in the mid 1950s. A new book of plays was published in 1980, which included GLOO JOO, FULL FRONTAL, and FOR THE WEST(UGANDA). These plays have been shown in East Africa, the States, and Jamaica. In 1987, Hastings adapted THE EMPEROR by Kapuscinski for the stage, and he has in motion a trilogy of plays about Marcus Garvey. Michael Hastings lives in Brixton.
FULL FRONTAL
is directed by Ben Evans, founder and Artistic Director of
Full Frontal Theatre. He has directed in Moscow, Madrid and London
whilst studying for an MFA in Theatre Directing. He co-founded
the physical theatre / dance company, Boundless, and has recently
assisted the director Clive Barker, and the Parisian choreographer,
Elsa Wolliaston. |
