Bandele worked with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio drama and screenplays for television. His plays include: "Rain"; "Marching for Fausa" (1993); "Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought" (1994); "Two Horsemen" (1994), selected as Best New Play at the 1994 London New Plays Festival; "Death Catches the Hunter and Me and the Boys" (published in one volume, 1995); and "Oroonoko", an adaptation of Aphra Behn's 17th-century novel of the same name. In 1997 he did a successful dramatization of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". "Brixton Stories", Bandele's stage adaptation of his own novel "The Street" (1999), premiered in 2001 and was published in one volume with his play "Happy Birthday Mister Deka", which premiered in 1999. He also adapted Lorca's "Yerma" in 2001.