Gone Too Far! [Paperback]

Nigeria, England, America,Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from?Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters?

When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival,Gone Too Far!is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. portraying a world where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given.

Set on aLondonhousing estateit depicts the experience of young multicultural Londoners and the issues of identity and culture that both unite and divide the characters.

Gone Too Far!premiered at the Royal Court Theatre as part of its Young Writers Festival on 2 February 2007. It was awarded theLaurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.

A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival and published as a programme text.Gone Too Far!is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. It was awarded theLaurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.Bola Agbaje is a young writer in whose first play,Gone Too Far!, she explores the experience of young Nigerians living in London.

Agbaje has an astute eye and ear and offers a different perspective to her male counterparts Guardian, 29/07/08

In her remarkable debut as a playwright Bola Agbaje walks two teenage black brothers around a dilapidated London council estate. She exploits their close encounters to give us a jolting lesson about the range of identities, beliefs and anxieties concealed beneath black or blackish skins. EvenlS/