Entertaining!
Engaging!
Revealing!
Intriguing!
Educative!
These are some of the words that capture the beauty of Bode Sowande’s play, Mammy Water’s Wedding, showing in Lagos from December 18, as produced by acclaimed Thespian Family Theatre, founded by Ayo Jaiyesinmi.
In the play, Young Akinla drowns while trying to rescue others, but is saved by Tarrela, the mermaid queen. He wakes up in a world below the sea. Both fall in love, and vow to get married on earth, but Tarrela must be born as an earthling for this to happen.
Tarella is later born as Okuntoro, to a rich businessman, Adagunodo, whose trade is waste dumping into the sea causing environmental pollution and upsetting the natural harmony between earth and water. Adagunodo suddenly becomes blind.
What caused this? Will he regain his sight? Will Akinla ever find Tarella? Will there be a healing in the bond between the earth and the sea? You need to watch this play and the venue to be is the KÖNÀ Hub, on 1 Ebun- Olu Adegboruwa Lane, Freedom Way, Lekki 1 at 7pm. It will show on December 18, 27 and 28.
This exciting performance by THESPIAN Family Theatre & Productions is laced with intrigues, music and dance and runs for 90 minutes. It is a brilliant tale of “green balance” and a social advocacy for environmental protection.
Thespian Family Theatre founder and producer of the play, Ayo Jaiyesinmi, explains that apart from the fact that it is very entertaining, it creates awareness on the need to be friendly with the environment. Indeed, she says, she is partnering the Go Forte Foundation, which is the brain behind the Make Over Lagos Day, committed to saving the nature from human excesses and folly.
“As we pondered what community conversation we should paint visual pictures about, Arc Gbenga Onabanjo, Founder, Go Forte Foundation, shared his pet project, MOLD – Make Over Lagos Day. His passion for the environment and structures were contagious! So, we’ve done a bit of digging into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Goals are 17 interlinked global ones, designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all,” Jaiyesinmi says.
The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
“That’s it! We decided to stage Bode Sowande’s Mammy Water’s Wedding, an awesome play that enmeshes conversations on environmental issues, culture and entertainment. This is an absolutely awesome work of fiction,” she adds.
Mammy Water’s Wedding!
Regular Tickets: Regular seats with popcorn & drink 5k
VIP Tickets: VIP Seats with option of small chops, asun, peppered or gizzards and palm wine/ cocktails 10k
Premium Tickets- Front Seat sitting, Foodtray/ palm wine/ cocktails & Take Away 25k
Showing on 18, 19, 25, 27 & 28 December 2021 at the KÖNÁ Hub.
at 7pm.
