Hallo folks, its the amazing month of December and we’re dubbing this one the #DecadentDecember on the Lagos stage circuit. Why? Well there’s more than a few interesting productions and what seems to be a budding appetite for Nigerian theatre. So, why not? Stage fun this month kicks off on the 4 & 5 December […]

To our regular readers and the patrons of Nigerian theatre in the month of October we say a BIG thank you!! Bode Asiyanbi’s Shattered at Terra Kulture in October was a resounding success on a number of levels, not just from the perspective of theatre attendance. #BreakTheSilence which was the theme of the Shattered stage play was actualised with […]

Today’s sequel to a first twitter conversation moderated by blog and online community TheNakedConvos (TNC hereafter) which included another cast member from Bode Asiyanbi‘s Shattered stage play Bola Haastrup (@bolahaastrup on Twitter) can be found below and was constructed around this story. Enjoy the story and the twitter conversation around it but please #breakthesilence and get involved. Contribute […]

October 10, 2015 marked the start of something special. Buoyed by the indomitable industry of TheNakedConvos – one of Nigeria’s foremost communities where frank conversations around adulthood, relationships and sexuality can be had – we began the march to #breakthesilence on sexual violence and rape. This was a collaboration unwittingly seeded by the original decision […]

#NigerianTheatre is experiencing a resurgence now and in no other month is this more evident than in October where there is a strong line-up of original plays celebrating Nigeria’s diversity, her history, her diversity and her coming-of-age. Bode Asiyanbi‘s Shattered which is one in Nigerian theatre’s OctoberFest, as we’re dubbing this month’s collection of stage […]

  “I’ll paraphrase Hemingway. There is nothing to writing or the arts. All you do is sit down at a typewriter or workstation, and bleed.” – Bode Asiyanbi   October 2015 at TerraKulture is a pivotal month, as Theatre@Terra hosts an award-winning but also poignant stage play written by Bode Asiyanbi – Shattered. Shattered is […]

August in #NigerianTheatre is a month on bountiful harvest. It features theatre production royalty as well as up and coming discoveries. From thought-provoking subjects like child-trafficking and the political landscape to a peek into the lives of Africa’s most populous city, August’s theatrical fare is anything but meagre. We’ve selected a few of the August […]

Are you a playwright or dramatist? Do you write dramatic literature or drama to be performed by actors? To support young playwrights, the Lagos Theatre Festival 2016 is seeking submissions of scripts for the Festival. The topic of the play should reflect the experiences of young people living in Lagos today. Shortlisted plays will be selected by […]

Performing Arts Workshop and Studios (PAWS); a theatre production outfit, with outstanding performances such as Camwood on the Leaves, The Wives, Rubiewe, Shattered, and Death and the King’s Horseman, amongst others brings to the stage one of Soyinka’s most powerful dramatic statements titled ‘Madmen and Specialist’ to TerraKulture this July. Madmen & Specialists is set […]

The past week has been one of intense experiences, from the macro to the micro. But none so profound as the exhibition that has been put up by the delightful Chinedu Ogakwu at TerraKulture. He’s calling this one Illimité: a call-to-arms for artists to use their unlimited creativity as a tool to influence their world. […]