Wole Soyinka's play heads to Terra Kulture this July

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July 10, 2015 4:24 PM

What happens when the only obstacle to your ambition is your father?If you didn't understand Soyinka's 'Madmen and Specialist,' then upcoming stage adaptation is all you need.

What happens when the only obstacle to your ambition is your father? What happens when a sacred pledge cannot be kept?

Wole Soyinka's 'Madmen and Specialist' which exposes lots of intriguing issues, is set to hit the Terra Kulture stage on July 19 and 26, 2015.

Directed by Kenneth Uphopho (Director of the critically acclaimed Saro the Musical and Single in Gidi),'Madmen and Specialist' features Patrick Diabuah, Bolanle Haastrup-Atitebi, Jeniffer Osammor, Austin Onuoha, and Kelvinmary Ndukwe, amongst others.

About Play.

Madmen & Specialists is set in the aftermath of the civil war and the resultant debilitating effect on the citizenry as civilians or military.

Bero a doctor left his practice to participate in the war, with his father, who also left for the war to work with the injured and recuperating soldiers at war.

Contrary to Bero’s instructions, his sister; Si Bero, enlists the support of two women traditional healers; Iya Agba and Iya Mate, to help continue the practice of her brother.

Iya Agba and Iya Mate have come to do as Si Bero requested, but on one condition that upon Dr Bero’s return from the war, he will continue the practice so that their knowledge will not go to waste.

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