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Full Frontal (play)

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Written by
  
Michael Hastings

First performance
  
13 February 1979

Original language
  
English language

Characters
  
Gabriel Nkoke

Playwright
  
Michael Hastings

Date premiered
  
February 13, 1979 (1979-02-13)

Place premiered
  
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London

Full Frontal is a one-man, one-act play by English writer Michael Hastings. It premièred at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1979 with Winston Ntshona performing and Rufus Collins directing, and was revised by the author for a production at Ovalhouse in 2001.

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Plot

The play is a monologue by Gabriel Nkoke - a man born in Nigeria but raised almost all his life in England, "the new type of man. I'm neither here. Nor neither there" - delivered to an unseen representative of the National Front, which Gabriel is at first seen trying to join because he agrees with their racialist agenda.

Critical reception

The play was received favourably by critics and described as "Swiftian"

References

Full Frontal (play) Wikipedia