Excerpt from coloradodrama.com, Bob Bows
March 25, 2009
If "Shake-speare" were an African, his name would be Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian novelist, poet, dramatist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1986. Soyinka's elegant language, classical tragic structure, and poetic sense of tribal rhythms are currently being served to perfection in Death and the King's Horseman, now running at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Most refreshing, though, Soyinka is noble without the nobility, evincing uncompromising anti-colonial politics in this scathing drama based on an actual incident in 1946, during British rule in Nigeria.
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Bob Bows - Excerpt from coloradodrama.com,