In This Season’s Harvest, Ikechukwu Erojikwe presents a conflict between material ambition and the spiritual obligations it incurs, a deadly dance, unravelling the extent of human ambition and its consequences. The play was recently staged on 22nd April,...

Introduction Uzor Maxim Uzoatu’s 1989 A Play of Ghosts is an unconventional play. In its cast is the fictional author of the play, Kema, who is also the heroine’s lover, the producer of the play, and then the...

Like the title states, Abuchi Modilim’s 2023 play, The Brigadiers of A Mad Tribe, exposes how a “mad republic” operates. The events that take place in the play are as annoying as they are amusing, as exciting as...

In Odenigbo, Ahmed Yerima dramatises the usurpation of power by leaders and the perversion of the powers usurped. Ahmed Yerima is a Nigerian playwright, director and professor of Theatre and Cultural Studies at Redeemer’s University, Osun State, with...

What Zulu Sofola offers in Wedlock of the Gods is tragedy, the ancient type of raw tragedy that emerges from the otherwise wonderful phenomenon of love. It is the sort of tragedy that proceeds when powers—economic and social,...

Remi, the protagonist of The Black Hermit, is a man “reared” by the tribe, who has returned from where he was sent to acquire “big education” to “break” the tribe, rather than lead her to victory as the...

My new house at Ugep. What that house cost me is my secret. The doors were sliding doors. The floor was tiled with Italian Carrera marble. The walls were sprayed with terracotta. The roof was brittle asbestos. The...

Anton Chekhov’s 1889 one-act farce, The Marriage Proposal, has been quite a literary traveller. Its arrival on the Nigerian literary scene though can easily be charted. Through the very important and sacred act of translation, Chekhov’s play was...

Pierced is the familiar tale of a man who unable to withstand the loss of his lover goes after the lover’s new man. What elevates the story though is what Innocent Chisom Valentine, the solo actor of this...

Ossie Enekwe, Dance and Healing Not even an enemy can write a history of Dramatic Literature in Nigeria where the name Ossie Enekwe is met absent. This scholar, who was also a playwright, actor, short story writer, and...