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Seigismundo's Tricycle: A Dialogue of Self and Soul 1969

Seigismundo's Tricycle: A Dialogue of Self and Soul

By Edgar Nkosi White

An old white man on a silver tricycle and a Negro who walks with crutches examine their state of aff...

Cast Size: Unknown

Sit Down, Banna 1968

Sit Down, Banna

By Norman Beaton

Cast Size: 19

Strong Breed, The 1968

Strong Breed, The

By Wole Soyinka

Eman, a teacher but village outsider, ignores pleas to leave on the eve of the New Year, the night w...

Cast Size: Unknown

Dream on Monkey Mountain 1967

Dream on Monkey Mountain

By Derek Walcott

The play follows Makak from one visionary night in his solitary home on Monkey Moutain, upon a messi...

Cast Size: Unknown

Lion and the Jewel, The 1966

Lion and the Jewel, The

By Wole Soyinka

In Ilujinle, a Yoruba village in the Ibadan Kingdom, the ageing Bale has fathered 63 children throug...

Cast Size: 17

Trials of Brother Jero, The 1966

Trials of Brother Jero, The

By Wole Soyinka

Self-styled prophet and con artist Brother Jero preaches to a diminishing congregation of “customers...

Cast Size: Unknown

Batai (Carnival Show) 1965

Batai (Carnival Show)

By Derek Walcott

Carnival Show

Cast Size: Unknown

Dance Bongo 1965

Dance Bongo

By Errol Hill

A fantasy in one act. A stranger arrives to a village settlement looking for a dead or dying man. Th...

Cast Size: Unknown

Jack of Spades 1965

Jack of Spades

By Norman Beaton

Written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, Jack of Spades courted controversy while touching direct...

Cast Size: Unknown

Mummer's Play, The 1965

Mummer's Play, The

By Edgar Nkosi White

Bellysong and Pariah, whose age difference could make them father and son, are actually two black ar...

Cast Size: Unknown