Playwright: Lanre Quadri
Published: 2013
Page: 40 pages
Title: The Indictment
Publisher: iGod Books
Reviewer: Olutayo Irantiola
The opening of this book is
with a poem by the poet-playwright, Lanre Quadri, who defined stealing and
governance according to the happenings within Nigeria and Africa at large.
According to the playwright, stealing is a crime committed by ‘no-man’ but
governance is when political officeholders take from the ‘Commonwealth’. As for
me the critic, I am opening this review with a commendation that this play is
written like a script ready for a screenplay. Many a times, playwright does not
publish like this.
This play is a one-scene satire
interspersed with drum to signify change in direction of the play. The play is
modelled after the Epic Theatre proposed by Bertolt Brecht. The play opened up
by the director who spoke the evident spate of corruption in the nation but
seeking for volunteers who were the cast in the play. However, this play touches
on all areas of governance in Nigeria and Africa.
