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SEGUN SOFOWOTE
(1939 - )Nationality: Nigerian
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Segun Sofowote, actor, broadcaster, Dramatist, writer, composer, elocutionist and art critic was born in 1939 into the household of Mr O. Sofowote, an educationist in his days and Mrs Rolawun Sofowote, both of whom hailed from Irolu-Remo, Ogun State, NigeriA. His all-creative career has remained in sundry departments of the literary, performing and communication Arts. [www.segunsofowote.net] Agent: the Septagon Concept
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Arbiter, The Sailor Boy In Town To Steal the Royal BugleArbiter, The
Synopsis:
Two dancers emerge into a virgin world. they gain self-consciousness, discover the bounties of Creation, encounter and physically test each other, and learn to co-exist. Fraternization and genuine mutual appreciation develop, effusively celebrated. Soon however, a providential bounty lands. Instinct takes over. they fight for exclusive possession. An intimidating but detached-looking arbiter emerges. His arbitration happens to be just a little lop-sided. the unhappy contestant stops the other's celebration and fighting resumes. the arbiter stops it and re-arbitrates, trimming both shares by appropriating, though much more from the larger, thus making it smaller this time. Each combatant gets a reduced share but one is content because he now has the larger of the two. This pattern of arbitration is repeated a few more times, reversing the favoured side each time and resulting in progressively fiercer combats. In the bitterest fight following total appropriation, the arbiter throws into the scene identical weapons. these are eagerly snatched up and put to use, taking the combat to a maniacal climax. Finally he stops it and fatally knocks their heads together. As he departs after the coup de grace, his costume reveals that he is not what he has seemed all along.
Notes:
the Arbiter, A piece of theatre rolling Along on the wheels of Drama, drums' dialogue And human dance was created in Nigeria in A milieu of conflict in the mid-1960s. the same circumstances had Also given birth to the unique formation for which it was originally intended. Known As theatre Express, it was the first known three-man travelling company made up entirely of 3 young thespians who would not be deterred by, At first, the gathering storm And eventually the trauma when it then broke And landed Nigeria into military rule. Since then the Arbiter has been performed beyond Nigeria, on A culture And Art trip to Austria, on A cultural tour of Mozambique, by An Ethiopian group before A pan-African diplomatic Audience in Addis Ababa And by South African players At the University of Stellenbosch. Over the years, the African Refugees Foundation, AREF, has Adopted the Arbiter As its regular grim theatre message to bitter political contenders And combatants in various conflict spots both in Nigeria And Abroad.
1st Produced:
University Of Lagos Centre For Cultural Studies, National Theatre, Lagos
28/1980
Organisations:
the International Centre for the Arts, Lagos [ICAL]
1st Published:
Ariya Productions, September 7, 2009
Music:
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Genre:
Dance Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: drummers
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Synopsis:
A tipsy black American sailor from a boat docked in a Nigerian harbour saunters around on the beach looking for fun. When he encounters Bose Fadare, an attractive-looking petty trader, he believes he has found the easy game he is looking for and duly proceeds to act accordingly. But after a rebuff, he soon discovers that she is not an empty plaything that he presumes her to be. Rather, in spite of her unimpressive English she is a self-respecting woman with some level of education and plenty of family woes, a large part of which has to do with her status with a bully of a husband. Sobered by her story, Jerry is drawn into a review of his own life too and a fellow feeling of being, like her, an unappreciated underdog, such that by the time the bossy husband arrives on the scene, Jerry's sympathy for the woman has rendered him much inclined to have a physical encounter with him. To his surprise however, his chivalry proves most unwelcome as she curses him for throwing a spanner in the works.
Notes:
Sailor Boy In Town is one of the products of A period in the mid-1960s when much of Segun Sofowote's Dramatic writing was devoted to building the repertoire of theatre Express, Arguably the first three-man theatre company ever. It was one of the small-cast original Dramas And Adaptations provided by him for the immediate benefit of this daring travelling trio of which he was the kingpin.
1st Produced:
Theatre Express , Mbari House, Ikorodu Road, Lagos, Nigeria
1965
Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Express Sketches, 1966
Music:
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Genre:
Drama One Act
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Omontayo is a strong-willed maiden, an only child of a certain high chief who sets great store by principle, and a doting mother who is unapologetically impulsive by nature. With their separate and opposing good intentions about their daughter, there is much need for insight which holds the vital key to a harmonious resolution. Unfortunately however, the very personification of insight in the situation is spurned by both parties and the poor lass is fated to fight all by herself in defence of her self-esteem and free will.
Notes:
Set in the 1940's in A certain big town And A distant smaller one, the play embodies An interesting mix of the Aristocracy, proletariat, social convention And incipient modernism of that period south And west of the River Niger And north of the Bight of Benin. A purely social Drama written in An unusual cross format for stage or screen or, indeed, Any performance media.
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Music:
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Genre:
Social Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 4f 3m
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