Months ago we announced that Chigozie Obioma’s multi-awarded debut novel, The Fishermen, had been picked for stage adaptation. The production is by the British theatre company New Perspectives, in partnership with HOME, and will open in 2018 as part of their Spring – Summer 2018 Season. The novel is being adapted by the playwright Gbolahan Obisesan, with the play to be directed by Jack McNamara. It will run from 19 – 28 Jul 2018, and tickets are now available for sale.
Published in 2015 by Pushkin Press, Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen was ushered in with a massive publicity campaign and became one of Africa’s most awarded debuts. A winner of the 2015 FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award for Fiction, the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Debut Author), the novel was also shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the 2015 Guardian First Book Award and the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It further made the longlists for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature and the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize, while appearing on many Best Book of the Year lists, including those by the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and NPR.
Obioma, who is currently Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, this year had his second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, bought by Little, Brown, for release in 2019.
In June of this year, Lola Shoneyin’s Orange Prize-longlisted novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, was similarly adapted for stage by Rotimi Babatunde, for the second time.
Buy the tickets to The Fishermen HERE.
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