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REFLECTIONS ON THEATRE PRACTICE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA

It is not enough to demand only cognition from the theatre, instructive images of reality. Our theatre must arouse pleasure in cognition and organize the joy of changing reality. Our audiences must not only hear of Prometheus freed from his bonds but must school themselves in the enjoyment of freeing him. Our theatre must instill all the enjoyment and pleasure of the inventor and discoverer, the liberator's feelings of triumph.1 Literature can entertain, in fact must entertain, but it is only the dim or brainwashed artist who is content merely to entertain, to play the cknon. The primary value…