The play which will
feature the likes of Oyewale Oluwatoba, Jovita Anyanwu-Chukwuemeka, Oluwaseun
Odukoya and Zeb John among others; is a satire about an old lawyer, Ramoni who has met with reverse
and tries to impress his wife during a festive period by purchasing nine metres
of lace material on credit at a time he is penniless. The cloth seller, Rafiu,
takes advantage of this opportunity to inflate the prices of clothes in other
to make a heavy gain. Unable to pay the debt, Ramoni gets into more trouble and
desperately looks for a court case through which he could raise the money to
pay his debt.
The
Executive Producer of the play, Om’Oba Jerry Adesewo said “We were planning to
stage the play to celebrate the International Day of Justice in July, that was
to come immediately after our last outing. We missed the timing and so decided
to find another relevance for the play. That was when the idea of using the
production to commemorate the appointment by the President and
Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, of Honourable Justice
Mariam Aloma Mukhtar as the first ever CJN because we feel it is a lanmark
achievement.” He added that the whole idea is to celebrate the CJN by hosting
her, her family, friends and well wishers to an evening of theatrical
performances.
Directed
by Adesewo Fayaman-Bay, the Abuja presentation of The Wizard of Law, which is
supported by the National Centre for Women Development, African Independent
Television, NTA Entertainment and the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) will
also starred the likes of Zubairu Jide Atta and Lara Owoeye-Wise.
Arojah
Theatre’s last outing was in June 2012, when the group put up a weeklong
festival of theatre in honour of the Executive Secretary of the National Institute
of rCultural Orientation (NICO), tagged Festival of Barclays Ayakoroma’s Plays
(FESTIBAP) which was held at the French Cultural Centre.
“This
is the first of a very busy last quarter of the year for us. Apart from the
monthly Play Reading Party we organise in collaboration with the Korean
Cultural Centre, we have two other outings this year and I think it is good but
for us as practitioners and for the theatre loving residents of the nation’s
capital”. Jerry Adesewo said, adding that the group will stil stage two plays,
Adinoyi Onukaba-Ojo’s ‘Sssooommmaaallliiiyyyaa’ which will be entered as
Abuja’s entry for the annual Festival of Nigerian Plays (FESTINA) and Dr. Seyi
Adigun’s HIV/AIDS awareness play, ‘Call for me My Osheni to celebrate the World
Aids Day 2012.
The
Wizard of Law comes up on Wednesday 31st October October, 2012 by 6pm prompt @
the National Centre for Women Development, Abuja with a Matinee for students of
FCT schools.
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