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Arojah Theatre Marks
International Peace Day
Jim Pressman 22 September, 2011
Newsdiaryonline
National Theatre, Iganmu Lagos
The eighth and September 2011 edition of the now popular,
monthly Play Reading Session of the Abuja-based, Arojah Royal
Theatre holds this
Thursday evening at 6pm at its usual venue, the studio of the
Korean Cultural Centre,
Rivers House in the Central Business District of the
Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Jerry Adesewo, Artistic
Director of Arojah Royal Theatre and founder of the Play-reading
Initiative, says this edition which coincides with the
International Peace Day, a UNESCO event celebrated by
member-nations across the world annually, is dedicated to the
celebration of the day in Nigeria:
“We are a socially responsible professional theatre outfit which
grew out of a deep and genuine concern to employ the fullness of
the arts as a social force. One of the aims and objectives of
this group is to use its medium, in alliance with organizations
committed to a better society, to forge a better tomorrow.” He
added that it was this drive that suggested the need to
celebrate the International Peace Day.
The Play Reading Party Eight tonight feature no less a
personality than one of Nigeria’s most successful cultural
administrators, the Artistic Director of the Abuja Carnival and
Theatre Arts
lecturer at the University of Abuja, Professor Bakare Ojo Rasaki,
popularly known as
Dance Rasaki.
Bakare Rasaki is a
Nigerian Choreographer, Playwright, Theatre Director and
Scholar, born in Aramoko, Ekiti State in South-Western Nigeria
in 1964. He served as theatre apprentice under the late Chief
Hubert Ogunde and Chief Jimoh Aliu before becoming a teacher of
theatre.
Author of many plays, Bakare presents this session his 1992
prophetic piece, Rogbodiyan, in which he satirizes the dilemma
of Koroju, a fictional community jinxed with the agony of
self-imposed leadership,
as the Book-of-the-Month as the playwright interacts with
theatre practitioners, critics and theatre-lovers on the role of
the theatre in the search for peace.
The Play Reading Party which debuted last October with Dr.
Rasaki Adinoyi Ojo’s The Killing Swamp which the group later
produced, has hosted other, older playwrights such as Professor
Ahmed Yerima and Dr. Barclays Ayakoroma, Executive Secretary at
the National Institute
for Cultural Orientation, NICO
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