Tunde's thirtieth birthday is fast approaching. So he's started therapy because he hasn't been able to get to the gym for weeks, and a recent one-night stand ended in tears - his. Interrogating the challenge of opening up and accepting our own vulnerabilities, Ifeyinwa Frederick's Sessions is a raw, funny, bittersweet deep-dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy. It was first produced in 2021 on tour of the UK, before a run at Soho Theatre, London, co-produced by Paines Plough and Soho, and directed by Philip Morris.
Ifeyinwa Frederick is a writer and entrepreneur. Writing alongside her full-time job as co-founder of the world's first Nigerian tapas restaurant, she has been featured in Forbes' list of 100 Women Founders in Europe. As a writer, her debut play The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre, 2018) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award (2017) and Character 7 Award (2017) and longlisted for the Verity Bargate Award (2017). Other work includes Sessions (Paines Plough, 2021). |
