Easily the best play I’ve seen this year, STARS is orgasmic in that it’s joyous, sensational and you really don’t want it to end. Mojisola Adebayo is giving us queer, working class, postcolonial, feminist afro-futuristic theatre, a genre I didn’t think could exist, but this is what this play is capable of, new frontiers and my goodness is it delightfully radical too. I savoured every second, from the moment I sank into the beanbags at the ICA to the musical interludes directed by Debo Adebayo. You can watch the sibling duo here chatting through their influences growing up and the vision behind creating STARS, “a concept album on stage” born on a night out in Dublin.

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Sex and sexuality can often be tricky topics to openly navigate. These two worlds incredibly complex and personal, with experiences differing dependent on one’s perspective and life journey. Topics that are usually greeted with judgement and surrounded by stigma dictated by societal norms and cultural contexts, creating much needed safe spaces to explore and discuss these facets of humanity is becoming increasingly important in our day and age. Writer Mojisola Adebayo delves deeper into these realities with upcoming production STARS: An Afrofuturistic Space Odyssey, a play following protagonist Mrs– an old lady who goes into outer space in search of her own orgasm, her quest sparked by three encounters: a young neighbour who discloses a secret; an old friend who reveals she is intersex; and a would-be lesbian lover in a launderette who offers Mrs two drops of her own pressed lavender and a smile that says ‘I handle delicates with care’. Ahead of the production’s premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 18th April to 4th May, Mojisola tells us more about what to expect from the show! Continue reading