ABSTRACT
Mojisola Adebayo (b.1971) is a London-born, Nigerian-Danish, Black British performer, poet, playwright, director, and theorist. An artist whose work encompasses theatre for social change as well as solo performance, Adebayo writes within the post-Windrush tradition of Black British theatre. Moving across a broad range of contemporary and historical subjects, her plays stage the entanglements between Blackness, queerness, and disability. As a theatre theorist, Adebayo offers the conceptual framework of “Afri-Quia Theatre”—both to trace the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and disability and to advocate for the critical vitality of queer performance making within Black British theatre. This intentionally capacious term, “Afri-Quia Theatre,” offers Black and African queer women a vibrant concept for theatre practice and research.
