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Breaking Baz: ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Star Faith Omole Pens Debut Play For London Stage; Off-Broadway’s ‘Titanique’ Sets Course For West End


‘We Are Lady Parts’ star Faith Omole pens debut play for the London stage; plus, Off-Broadway’s ‘Titanique’ sets course for the West End: Breaking Baz column

Rebekah Murrell ( One Day, The Pact) will direct My Father’s Fable, with Ayola, Tiwa Lade and Gabriel Akuwudike in the company, with a fourth role still to be cast. An earlier effort, an yet-unproduced play called Kaleidoscope, won the 2023 Alfred Fagon Award, named after the actor, poet and playwright who died in 1986. Omole said that the show dove deeper into the story of her character Bisma, the group’s bass player, “exploring her identity as a woman, as a mother as well, and how people see her in comparison to how she actually is.”

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