Oroonoko

<p>In 1688 the British writer and playwright Aphra Behn published her 'true history' called Oroonoko or the Royal Slave. It tells the story of an African prince tricked into slavery and transported to the British colony of Surinam in South America. </p><p></p><p>Biyi Bandele has written a witty thought-provoking play that is at once a celebration of Aphra Behn's humanist vision a bold and irreverent re-interpretation of the three hundred year-old classic and a tragic love story that resounds with passion. First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place Stratford-on-Avon in 1999. (Cast 10m 3f).</p>