Madmen and Specialists
Madmen and Specialists | |
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Written by | Wole Soyinka |
Characters | Dr. Bero Old Man Mendicants Si Bero Iya Agba Iya Mate |
Date premiered | August 1, 1970 (1970-08-01) |
Place premiered | Eugene O'Neill Theater Center |
Original language | English |
Subject | Nigerian Civil War |
Setting | Dr. Bero's surgery and the space before it, Nigeria, 1969 |
Madmen and Specialists is a play by Wole Soyinka, conceived in 1970 during his imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War. The play, Soyinka's eighth, has close links to the Theatre of the Absurd.[1] Abiola Irele (in the Lagos Sunday Times) called it "a nightmarish image of our collective life as it appears to a detached and reflective consciousness". It was published in London 1971 by Methuen and in New York in 1972 by Hill & Wang.
Madmen and Specialists is considered Soyinka's most pessimistic play, dealing with "man's inhumanity and pervasive corruption in structures of power".[2] The plot concerns Dr. Bero, a corrupt specialist, who imprisons and torments his physician father.
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- The Swamp Dwellers
- The Lion and the Jewel
- The Trials of Brother Jero
- A Dance of the Forests
- The Strong Breed
- Kongi's Harvest
- The Road
- The Bacchae of Euripides
- Madmen and Specialists
- Camwood on the Leaves
- Jero's Metamorphosis
- Death and the King's Horseman
- Opera Wonyosi
- Requiem for a Futurologist
- A Play of Giants
- From Zia with Love
- A Scourge of Hyacinths
- The Beatification of the Area Boy
- King Baabu
- Etiki Revu Wetin
- Sixty Six
- Kongi's Harvest (film)
- The Interpreters (1965)
- Season of Anomy (1973)
- Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021)
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