Six Plays

Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King’s ‘A transfixing work of modern world drama’ – Independent Madmen and ‘A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct’ – Observer Opera Wonyosi, adapted from Gay’s The Beggar’s ‘Swaggering and scabrous, at once a verbal spree and a fierce assault on totalitarianism’ – Observer The volume also contains The Trials of Brother Jero and Jero’s Metamorphosis, classic comedies of modern Nigerian life based on the hilarious and manipulative transformations of a preacher, and Camwood on the Leaves, a haunting radio play, which evokes a divided community.