J. E. Sibi-Okumu Collected Plays (2004-2014)

Description

Kenyan playwright, J.E. Sibi Okumu, explores otherness, empathy, and understanding in this collection of plays. Role Play, which was best performed in 2004, gives us a ‘zoomed out’ perspective of Kenya’s history and society and gives African drama, and posterity, a new point of reference. Kaggia depicts a man who offered all his life to his nation but who became a victim of betrayal by compatriots and a new African leadership too preoccupied with sleaze, squandering a lifetime opportunity to change the lives of the people they led. Elements tells the story of Dana, a woman of mixed-race heritage who, despite her wide travels around the world, still faces a conflict of belonging as she navigates the maze of identities.