By Toyin Akinosho Jide Ogungbade, the theatre director widely noted for interpreting Fred Agbeyegbe’s “Ajo Plays” into full carnivals on stage, has died. “Nicholas Babajide Ogungbade, passed on in the evening hours of Tuesday, July 9, 2019 in Lagos after a period of illness”, a family statement announced. A poet, playwright, singer and music composer, […]
Moremi–The Musical, the new stage interpretation of the Olurombi tragedy, is a large exhibition of art. Each of the scenes in this drama, produced for the end of year holiday period by Bolanle Austen Peters Productions (BAP), is painted, in vivid colours, with animated sound effects, to present the time of day, the pace of […]
By Akin Adeṣọkan A man saunters into the first-class section of an airplane, and walks into two men. The first is the president of Nigeria and the other the President of Muslims in Yorubaland. “Ah, this is so good,” he says. “It’s my lucky day. You are president of Nigeria, you are president of all […]
WTF – Capturing Zuma, a cartoonist’s tale, by Zapiro with Mike Wills (Jacana) If, for some inexplicable reason, you wanted a reminder of the Zupta years, Zapiro’s new book fits the bill. And it’ll make you smile – wryly. WTF is not Zapiro’s usual annual. This volume spans the years from 2005 all the way […]
The author Toni Kan and the multi-genre culture producer Bolanle Austen-Peters, are part of a very select group of 23 high profile speakers expected in London, United Kingdom, in early October, for a series of panel conversations around the hot button issues on the African Continent. The parley is organised by Financial Times. The FT […]
Registration to participate in the “new” festival ends on August 31, 2018 By McJohn Otontoh, BookArtville Theatre Correspondent After five years of producing the Lagos Theatre Festival, seen by many as the largest outdoor festival in West Africa, Kenneth Uphopho is leading a team to inaugurate The Lagos Fringe. The Lagos Theatre Festival […]
Beeta Universal Arts Foundation BUAF is calling on playwrights to submit their works for the second annual BEETA Playwright Competition. The requirements that you have to be a Nigerian playwright, aged between 18 and 40, come with a proviso: terms and conditions apply. The 1 Million Naira award comes with a publishing deal and guaranteed […]
Jahman Anikulapo A sudden burst of confusion overwhelmed the belly of the vast hall, yielding a cacophony of cries and shrieks of agony, furiously stampeding feet and then… blackout! In no time, the ambience of the hall which moments ago had been a spot for fun had become a site of anguish. In the aftermath […]
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Lucidity of Absurdity by Olumide Olaniyan; Kraftgroits, Kraft Books Ltd, Ibadan; 2017; 82pp The well-worn saying by Aristotle that man is a political animal is of essence in the poetical offering of Olumide Olaniyan. The poet makes his voice count in the public space as opposed to private-hewn obscurantism. There is no […]
The Ibadan Playhouse will be performing Femi Osofisan’s Love’s Unlike Lading in Lagos this weekend Nigeria’s top playwright’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice will be staged twice, at 3pm and 7pm at the Amphitheatre of the Lagos Country Club in Ikeja on Sunday, July 29. It is directed by Tunji Azeez, a senior lecturer […]
