Living in Lagos is a full-time job, surviving Lagos a top-level managerial position. It is that serious, yet Kenneth Uphopho’s stage adaptation of Bobo Omotayo’s London Life, Lagos Living insists it does not have to be. We don’t...

The Tiv people of Nigeria have a storytelling tradition called kwagh-alom, where a family gathers at the end of the day’s work, in the early hours of the night, to listen to stories and folktales by creative storytellers,...

When Chief (Stanley Okeke) walks on to the stage, Austine Onuoha’s National Cake is about to transform your primary thoughts of relaxation, community, and bonding into a theatre stage you never imagined seeing. It entertains, educates, and edifies....

On the 29th night of May, 2026, a theatrical excellence, A Tale of Two Nnamdis by Tobe Osigwe  from Paul Robeson School of Drama, Theatre and Film Studies Department, University of Nigeria, became the driver of thought-provoking conversations...

From the 21st to the 23rd of April, 2026, I had the privilege to attend the Festival of Nine Plays at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, hosted by the school’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies. This three-day...

Ben Binebai’s Dance of the Ghosts is a play that offers hope to the oppressed. Justice, it says, no matter how suppressed, must prevail. The truth, even if silenced, even if killed, must emerge. The ghosts will dance...

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...