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FUNERAL OF THE MINSTREL a play by NNOROM AZUONYE
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“Nnorom Azuonye has written a remarkable play that allows Esiaba
Irobi's charismatic electricity to crackle from beyond the
veil…capturing his speech, his brawling irreverence, diamond sharp
intelligence and ability to lob the most un-p.c. hand grenades
filled with intellectual explosives from the most unexpected of
angles... This is a play that must be seen.”
- Andy Willoughby
Senior
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Teesside University.
“…How do you mourn an avatar? Tears are never enough. After the
songs and dirges, the ache remains... Esiaba Irobi was such an
avatar. He came, shone, glittered for a brief incandescent moment,
and then was gone...In this short play which Nnorom Azuonye has
structured as a rite of mourning enacted by Esiaba’s peers and
former students, he invokes the late writer’s anger and irreverence,
his crusade against corruption and mediocre leadership, as well as
his irrepressible love of grandiloquence. ...Nnorom shows that,
always underlying Esiaba’s creative passion was a profound
humaneness, and a sublime vision of perfection and
loveliness...every time the play is performed, Esiaba himself, the
‘rambunctious songmaster’ and ‘intellectual terrorist’...will
probably rise, as the play envisages, and join in the dance.”
-
FEMI OSOFISAN
Author of
The Oriki of a Grasshopper & Other Plays.
Cover Image: Olu Oguibe 'Untitled' 2010 Olu Oguibe is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut and Associate Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the same university.
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In stock UK - £5 + £1.49 P&P Europe - £5 + £2.99 (P&P) Rest of the World - £5 + £4.99 (P&P) Calendar October 1, 2015 - Publication date
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