Brixton Stories & Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D Book Cover

Brixton Stories & Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Plays,
  • London,
  • Magical Realism
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Plays where reality blurs with fantasy in urban London
  • Lyrical explorations of memory and shifting relationships
Publisher Description

Two plays by one of Britain's most prolific young black authors.

Brixton Stories. Ossie Jones is an immigration lawyer in Brixton, London, a place full of wordmongers, preachers and prophets. One day he falls into a coma, is arrested for a crime he has not committed and is locked up in prison with a triple-lifer. Biyi Bandele's witty and engaging play is in a world in which fantasy may, troublingly, be more real than reality.

Brixton Stories premiered at The Tricycle Theatre, London, 2001.

. 'I went for a walk. I fought in a war. I took long rides on the tube. I met someone new. We had a child. She met someone new. The seasons changed. I changed with the seasons... That's why I'm here.' Relationships are as elusive as memory itself in this poetic and lyrical play.

Happy Birthday Mister Deka D premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August 1999 and transferred to the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

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