Inua Ellams (Nigeria/United Kingdom):
An Evening with an Immigrant
January 18 - January 20, 2022 Run Time: 90 minutes
AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT
Written and Performed Inua Ellams
Presented by Inua Ellams and Fuel
Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams, born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered to be Boko Haram territory, left Nigeria for England in 1996 aged 12.
Littered with poems, stories, and anecdotes, Ellams tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant-story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, finding friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre, and drinking wine with the Queen of England, all the while without a country to belong to or a place to call home.
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Inua Ellams
Written and Performed
Inua Ellams is an award-winning poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, and designer. His published books of poetry include Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, The Wire-Headed Heathen, #Afterhours and The Half-God of Rainfall – an epic story in verse. His first play, The 14th Tale received the Edinburgh Fringe First award and his fourth, Barber Shop Chronicles sold out two runs at England’s National Theatre. He recently completed his first full poetry collection, The Actual and is working on several commissions across stage and screen. In graphic art and design, he mixes the old with the new, juxtaposing texture and pigment with flat colour and vector graphics.
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