Sleepova
- Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
- 4F
- ISBN: 9780573013478
"We don’t get to choose when we become women, y’know?"
A frank, funny and moving coming-of-age story, Sleepova is an ode to black women, their boundless spirits and wild dreams.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Performance Group:
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
- Accolades:
- Nominee! Black British Theatre Award for Best Playwright (2023)
Nominee! Evening Standard Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright (2023)
Nominee! Off West End Theatre Award (Offies) for New Play (2023)
As each year tugs them further into adulthood and life doesn’t pan out quite as they imagined, they struggle to hold on to a friendship that they swore would last a lifetime. A frank, funny and moving coming-of-age story, Sleepova is an ode to black women, their boundless spirits and wild dreams.
Matilda Feyi?ay? Ibini is an award-winning bionic playwright and screenwriter of Nigerian heritage from London. Matilda’s debut play Muscovado won the Alfred Fagon Audience Award in 2015. Matilda’s next play Little Miss Burden premiered at the Bunker Theatre in 2019, was a finalist for Best New Play at the Off West End awards and won a Popcorn Finalist Award in 2020. Screen credits include the BAFTA-nominated CripTales for BBC America and BBC4.
REVIEWS:
"Effervescently entertaining."
The Stage
"You can’t help but fall in love with this exuberant show."
Evening Standard
"A safe space of erupting energy, girlhood and teenage dreams."
The Guardian
"A sparky 90-minute play."
The Telegraph
"A teenage pyjama party that bursts with life."
The Times
"Exuberant drama."
TimeOut
"Throughout, Ibini writes with insight and humour conjuring the texture of [the characters'] lives."
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Characters
- Casting: 4F
- Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s), All Female
REY (Alfreda) – she/her, femme, black or black-mixed race, proudly Queer, various ages, plus-size, starts play age fifteen, of Grenadian and English heritage.
SHAN (Shanice) – she/her, black, various ages, starts play age sixteen, of Nigerian and Jamaican heritage, has sickle cell.
ELLE (Gabrielle) – she/her, black or black-mixed race, various ages, starts play age fifteen, of Jamaican heritage.
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Join Rey, Elle, Shan and Funmi who have finally convinced their parents to let them hold their very first sleepova. Armed with sugary snacks, school gossip, and secret questions they can only ask each other, their sleepovas become pretty much a sacred space for them. |
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