Review-Death and the King's Horseman
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I would like to thank you for inviting me to last night’s play ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’; it certainly was a blast, I felt resurrected renewed with new meaning yet puzzled as you do after a philosophy seminar, if you’ve ever been to one.
The play was simply amazing; to be able to perplex an audience to see some rationale into the subject matter of ritual suicide and to compel us to see a culture as a whole as opposed to a small segment. It rids the outsider, in our case the audience of pre-conceived ideas and weakens the construct of ethnocentrism as it intended.
We need more plays like this that deals with the idea of acceptance and appreciation of different cultures.
Aesthetically brilliant, the colours, the fabric, the market place and the accent played by the actors was very convincing almost taking me to the Yoruba city where it all happened.
Oh and the Mother of the Market, as the play went on, her pain, her words became so real and heart-breaking, she delivered it with conviction. The other characters were also great but I’m being a bit biased as I love powerful women, they inspire me. (This tells us something about the African culture and how it elevates and respects their woman, ‘the womb that bore them’ or something like that as the quote goes.)
Anyway thanks again and I look forward to watching great performances like this in the future.
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Saleha Begum is a local writer, poet, painter and educator. She is also a co-host of The Poetry Show on Unity FM.
