Oliver Award Winning Playwright Presents New Play THE BURIAL at The Albany Theatre, Now thru May 11

StoneCrabs Theatre Company and the Albany, who are currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, present a new play by Olivier Award winning playwright, Bola Agbaje. The Burial is a lively new satire which explores how the conflicting traditions and religious tensions of one family reveal an unlikely respect for their Nigerian and British-Nigerian cultures.

Funmi has it all: a career, doting husband and a comfortable life in London... until the day her father dies and his two Nigerian wives arrive in a flurry of designer shoes and polished fingernails to clash over his burial arrangements. Born a Muslim, married a Christian and with new-found Buddhist beliefs, Funmi is forced to confront the past and her own faith to end the war over her father's body.

Bola Agbaje won the Laurence Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in an affiliated theatre for her first play, Gone too Far. She received an Evening Standard Award nomination for most promising playwright in 2008 and has seen her other plays, including Belong and Off The Endz, performed in major theatres across London. The playwright-turned-filmmaker has also adapted a screenplay from her first play, Gone Too Far, with a release planned for autumn 2013.

TICKETS:£8 - £14 and may be purchased here.