Description

One day with the Hounds is a snapshot of a page in the historical evolution of modern Nigeria. It's a snapshot that was actually taken with the lens of a chronicler with deep social conscience. Chief Dr Sir Alhaji Skido Alao, a politician whose titles cannot do enough justice to his flamboyance, is on the run, along with his even more pompous political adviser, following the fall of their regime. After pulling all the stops while in government at the centre and now finding themselves in a remote, rural border community far from government, they must perform their final acts on the hoodwinked for ever? That is the hamlet question of the drama. This open-ended play with elements of Brechtian alienation effect may be documented as a comedy as we take risible pound of flesh on the once upon-upon-a-time untouchables like Alao, but to the partisan, it is the tragedy of a nation, and to the neutral, a well told story.