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Seven years later, this and other snippets of pop culture have become the live
entertainment of a post-apocalyptic society which is sincerely trying to hold onto its
past. Seventy-five years later pop songs, sitcom plots and jingles are the myths and
legends from which new forms of performance are created.

Guildhall School of Music and Drama aren’t doing any in-person shows yet, but there’s
plenty going on online.

Award-winning theatre maker Chelsea Walker directs Anne Washburn’s imaginative,
music-filled dark comedy, which explores the relevance of culture on a society that has
none left.

And, from 22-27 May, they’ll be showing Gone Too Far! Nigeria, England, America,
Jamaica; are you proud of where you’re from? When two brothers from different
continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited
nation: a world where everyone wants to be an individual, but no one wants to stand
out from the crowd, and where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given.

Winner of the 2019 JMK Young Director award, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu directs this
comic, vibrant and perceptive exploration of identity and culture by Bola Agbaje,
described as “an iconic dramatist for an entire generation of young playwrights” by
Simon Stephens. Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007 and won
an Olivier Award the following year for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliated
Theatre.
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