Drama

The immaculate Brother Jero, the velvet-hearted Brother Jero, the one and only articulate hero of Christ’s crusade: I have seen many actors bring this suave prophet of Wole Soyinka in The Trials of Brother Jero to life on the stage, most notably Ropo Ewenla during his Ibadan PlayHouse run. So, from the moment I saw […]

The off-Broadway premiere of Wole Soyinka’s 1958 play, The Swamp Dwellers, offers at least two reasons to be excited, and hopeful. The first comes from a point that is almost over-made in the American media, with theatre critics describing the event as some sort of lost-and-found moment. The New York Times reported the playwright himself […]

PERSONS CHIEF GUARD 1 GUARD 2 VINCENT ADAMMA BAYODE CATHERINES ABASIAKARA IDARA BELLO LEILA EXTRA TRANSGRESSOR _____________________________________________ Afternoon in a hall. A middle-aged woman, CHIEF, sits at a table on the podium, going through papers. A door opens and two female guards herd five men in handcuffs into the hall and make them stand in […]