deesh
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Sola drumming in African play
This play sounds really awesome actually. Anyway, perhaps some insight as to what Sola has been up to...
Sola is one of the musician featured in a play currently at the National Theater. Here is a review of it:
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/42723/productions/death-and-the-kings-horseman.html
He is also in a rehearsal photo here: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=42723&dspl=moreimages&imgid=4128 - Image 7.
Death and the King's Horseman
Nigeria, 1943. The King is dead, and tonight his Horseman must escort him to the Ancestors.
As Elesin Oba dances through the closing marketplace, flirting with the women, pursued by his praise-singer and an entourage of drummers, he promises to honour the ancient Yoruba custom of ritual suicide and so accompany his ruler on the final journey. But a life so rich is hard to leave, and this is a British colony where such customs are not tolerated, no matter how sacred.
I am the master of my fate.
When the hour comes watch me dance
along the narrowing path...
My soul is eager. I shall not turn aside.
Set against the conflict of indigenous and invader, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s extraordinary play uses Elesin’s transition from the living to the dead to examine the essence of corruption and the power of the human will.
Percussion: Sola Akingbola, Ayanlere Alajede, Tunde Ayanyemi and Ayobami Thomas
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Jana B
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Location: Santos, Brazil
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 02:55 |
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Thanks Deesh! I was missing Sola.
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