Description

ABOUT THE PLAY Venom for Venom is a fast-paced experimental drama, which reawakens humanity to the issues of environmental degradation, youth restiveness and the need for peer-to-peer education and collective action towards restoring sanity. The play presents a double-edged conflict in which the dispossessed youths on the one hand are pitched against opposing ideologies, the elders, and the expatriate oil exploration company on the other hand. The multiple levels of intrigues that split the youths into two opposing camps and the reciprocal deceit between the King and the oil company all heighten the conflict of the play and demonstrate the universality of greed as the driving force behind all forms of en mankind dation, humanity to While employing the rich total theatre technique of the indigenous African moonlight story teller, the playwright crafts a story which is likely to keep the reader and the audience spell bound from the opening through the last scene. The beauty of the play is the playwright's ability to accommodate the different shades of opinion on the issues at stake, which he holds up to the audience for their objective assessment without losing sight of his overriding message on the futility of embracing violence as the natural reaction to human oppression and exploitation.