Description

About the Play A Review in folk songs and dances by women and hunters, against the background of the riverside, farmlands and rocky plain of Kiri land, AJON immortalizes the legend of a woman who sacrifices her personal vision of privileging child bearing over wealth for the vision of unifying her people as a kingdom. The play demythologizes and negates the mystery of a woman's beauty as a product of a spiritual water goddess, putting in place of the mystery a self-sacrificing woman with wits without having to excuse or explain her beauty and equally avoiding the usual tradition of locating such legend in royal court. Ajon recalls Moremi but the playwright's ideological consistency keeps her away from the clutches of petty-bourgeoisie construct; she makes a king and a kingdom out of Busaye her husband gaining immortality and questioning the stigma of the barren woman with birth of a kingdom, a United and fortified Kiri land. The tension and the texture of the swift changing scenes are laden with comic and tragic songs which are the plays flavors and substance.