Chinonyerem Odimba
Chinonyerem Odimba is a playwright and screenwriter.
Her plays include: Black Love (Paines Plough, 2021); Unknown Rivers (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); Princess and the Hustler (Eclipse Theatre Company, Bristol Old Vic and Hull Truck Theatre co-production, 2019); Amongst the Reeds (Clean Break, Edinburgh Fringe and Yard Theatre, London, 2016); A Blues for Nia (Eclipse Theatre/BBC); His name is Ishmael (Bristol Old Vic, 2013); The Birdwoman of Lewisham (Arcola, 2015) and Joanne (Clean Break, Soho Theatre, 2015). She is a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme 2016 (formerly the Pearson Playwrights' Scheme).
Her screenplay Scotch Bonnet was filmed by the BBC for The Break, a series of short films.
Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers
An anthology of six brilliant plays, celebrating a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19Black Love
An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.9915 Heroines
15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
By variousDrawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Unknown Rivers
A poignant and life-affirming play about the extraordinary powers of female friendship.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Princess & The Hustler
A play about a cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-super-Mare Beauty Contest, against the backdrop of Black British Civil Rights marches in 1960s Bristol.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Princess & The Hustler: The Play & The GCSE Study Guide – BUNDLE DEAL
By Chinonyerem Odimba and Alicia PopeGet Chinonyerem Odimba's Princess & The Hustler and the accompanying GCSE Study Guide - everything you need for success in your GCSE English Literature exam.
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House + Amongst the Reeds: two plays
By Somalia Seaton and Chinonyerem OdimbaTwo explosive plays about the need to be seen, commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£10.99£8.79Amongst the Reeds
Two friends scratch out a living on the margins of society in a play commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.
Published in volume House + Amongst the Reeds: two playsJoanne
Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.
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