Images of previous production in the department of performing art, leadcity university chapter

WALE OGUNYEMI’S EXPERIMENT WITH MYTH AND RITUAL IN OBALUAYE

 

WALE OGUNYEMI’S EXPERIMENT WITH MYTH AND RITUAL IN OBALUAYE

Obaluaye is a Yoruba music-drama about syncretism of religion. It also focuses on the consequences of foreign religion on indigenous Yoruba culture. It is about a Baale of a Yoruba town who neglects the religion of his people for a foreign religion (Christianity) thereby invoking the wrath of the gods on himself and the town.  The introduction to the play brings this to the fore:
           The Baale of a Yoruba town has brought
           the curse of Obaluaye otherwise known as
           Soponna, on his town through his refusal
           to worship Orisa.  The Baale is a
         

World Theatre Day 2016

Thursday 24 Mar 2016 to Sunday 27 Mar 2016

Irish Theatre Institute

The Message Author of the World Theatre Day 2016 is the Russian Stage Director Anatoli Vassiliev.

Since its creation in 1962, World Theatre Day is celebrated on March 27th and represents for the Theatre community all over the world an occasion to underscore the diversity of this art form and to promote its impact on our contemporary societies.The International Theatre Institute marks this global occasion each year by inviting a renowned theatre artist to write an international message. This message is translated into more than 20 languages and released throughout the ITI network (more than 90 ITI Centres and numerous Cooperating Members) and theatre organizations worldwide.

World Theatre Day Message 2016 by Anatoli Vassiliev

DO WE NEED THEATRE ?      
That is the question thousands of professionals disappointed in theatre and millions of people who are tired of it are asking themselves.

What do we need it for?
In those years when the scene is so insignificant in comparison with the city squares and state lands, where the authentic tragedies of real life are being played.

What is it to us?
Gold-plated galleries and balconies in the theatre halls, velvet armchairs, dirty stage wings, well-polished actors' voices, - or vice versa,

BOOk REVIEW : The Beatification of an Area Boy by Prof. Wole Soyinka

 The Beatification Of Area Boy. Wole Soyinka.

A four-person combo on a raised platform onstage plays infectious African jazz music as the audience takes their seats. Behind this combo, towering grey concrete walls rise upward and out of sight. There is no sky. To the right, a dirty alleyway, and further right, at an angle, the cold concrete façade of "La Plaza," a modern shopping center. Judge, the play's vatic figure, lies face down on the landing of the front steps leading to this center, the highest point on stage. Judge's apostrophe to the unusually bright morning opens the play on a hopeful note, but by the end, the brightness is revealed to have been a sign of great catastrophe -- the sacking and burning of the Maroko shantytown and expulsion of its one million inhabitants.

The Lagosians in Wole Soyinka's latest play, The Beatification of Area Boy (subtitled "A Lagosian Kaleidoscope"), speak, sing, and dance their alienation from a city/world in which they live physically but