Newsroom political platform local hot spot confession box preacher-pulpit and football
stadium. For generations African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These
are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop
Chronicles which was partly inspired by verbatim recordings is a heart-warming hilarious and
insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg Harare Kampala
Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day. It was first produced by the National Theatre
Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is here publishedas a Methuen Drama Student Edition with
commentary and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje.
