Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.

Inspired in part by the story of a Leeds barber, the play invites the audience into a unique environment where the banter may be barbed, but the truth always telling. The barbers of these tales are sages, role models and father figures who keep the men together and the stories alive.

Inua Ellams's celebrated play was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017.

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross-art-form practitioner, a poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, designer and founder of the Midnight Run-a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency. Inua's previous plays at the National include The 14th Tale (Fringe First award) and Black T-Shirt Collection. Other plays include Knight Watch at Greenwich + Docklands Festival; Cape at the Unicorn; Three Sisters at the National Theatre and The Half God of Rainfall at the Kiln Theatre. Radio plays include The Ballad of Abdul Hafiz and Wild Blood. He has published three five books poetry; Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales and The Wire-Headed Heathen, #Afterhours and The Actual.