Madmen and Specialists is a play by Wole Soyinka conceived during his imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War. The play Soyinka’s eighth has close links to the Theatre of the Absurd. 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.The plot concerns Dr.
author
Wole Soyinka
character in play
Dr. Bero, Iya Mate, Si Bero, Iya Agba, Old Man, Mendicants
premiere date
1970-08-01
premiere year
1970-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
Dr. Bero's surgery and the space before it Nigeria 1969
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Madmen and Specialists"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.