ROTIMI AGBABIAKA

In Lagos, Nigeria, a young boy tries on his mother's wedding dress and discovers a liberating world of make-belief. Setting his sights on a dazzling career as an actor on the American stage, he will first have to leap over obstacles placed by an industry that isn't always welcoming to applicants who are neither white nor straight.

 

Hailed as a “spectacular, neon-drenched, coup-de-theatre,” Type/Caste is a fast-paced and humorous journey through the peaks, pitfalls, and hallucinations of a young artist’s quest for success. Rotimi Agbabiaka shape-shifts from character to character and uses monologue, song, dance, and drag to embody, explore, and expose the battles minority artists fight in the exclusive world of mainstream American theatre.