Tag Archives: Bode Asiyanbi

In anticipation of the International Day of the Girl Child 2016 and after a well-received outing last year, the Performing Arts Workshop and Studios supported by Temple Production Foundation and Eko Hotel presents “Shattered” . A stage play that portrays the culture of silence and the society’s complacency on the issues of rape. It examines […]

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 […]