New play tackles notions of love

An item that most people claim to know almost everything about but often tend to understand very little of  is love.

That’s the subject of a new play titled The Perfect Man Play, written by Anita Oduro which she would direct at 6.00pm on November 15 at the Folks Place, National Theatre. 

“Love seems difficult to find and identify in contemporary times as society puts so much weight on what it is all about, how it should look and how it should be presented,” says Ms Oduro, a graduate of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon.

The Perfect Man Play is her directorial debut after graduation three years ago.  It’s about a young radio presenter  who thinks  she has seen and heard it all when it comes to what romantic love is about. 

She falls for a character she least expects to  but does she stay in the relationship or try to wiggle out of it due to her ‘crazy’ notions about love? 

“Lots of ideas abound everywhere about romantic love. People make all sorts of claims  about it and the play only tries to dissect some of the widely held views,” Ms Oduro says.

The Perfect Man Play is produced by Royale Hauteur, a management and artistic production house in collaboration with playhouse.kom.