BLACK
BOX BY
EFO KODJO MAWUGBE
“Aren’t
we all Blemazadonians?” Efo
Kodjo Mawugbe, Blemazado, 2008
BLACK
BOX written by Efo Kodjo, scripted (scenography) by Arthur Lestrange with Shaji
Karyat will feature on the stage of Alliance Francaise Accra on Tuesday 21st
April, 2015 at 7:30 pm for a journey through the theatrics of life.
Four years after his untimely passing, Efo Kodjo
Mawugbe; playwright extraordinaire, dramatist, and performer leads an awakening
of one of his non-exhaustive repertoire of plays all the way from
Blemazado. Efo Kodjo who is widely known
and appreciated for his contribution to education and development of arts in
Ghana and hailed more recently for his play, In the chest of a Woman has another of his works seeing the
light of day even after his sojourn to Tsiefe.
In the play, Shaji
Karyat performs as Papa Ayivi. In this newly devised piece, Papa Ayivi, who
bears the name of the king's linguist and storyteller in Cinderama, is a
hybrid of Bob (Sister), Bodza (The G-Yard People) and Kokosakyi (Blemazado).
A fifty-year-old playwright, ICT expert, linguist and lunatic, Papa Ayivi
rummages through the rubbish in a harrowing and hilarious attempt to scratch
out an existence and build some form of shelter for his people and himself.
SYNOPSIS
The
question in all its acuteness is as follows. “How can a human being find clothes
and shelter in a poisoned and mutant world, how can one continue to live, to
work, to create, for oneself and for others? Papa Ayivi, reject among rejects,
is still standing, most of the time. His presence and his harrowing-hilarious
actions in the versatile and dubious world where he lives reveal a maternal man
who refuses to give up fighting. His delirious alienation will lead him perhaps
not to save his entire people but at least to attempt to save a single being.
But is there still time?”
This play is designed to shock, create a chain thought, provoke discourse, enlighten and above all,
explore the human condition.10% of ticket sales will be given to the Efo Kojo Mawugbe Foundation.
The play is supported by Institut Francais Ghana
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