Roverman 5 for sure
Ebo Whyte and his Roverman crew are at it again. As they have done regularly over the years, they are repeating all five plays they have produced this year as a festival that allows patrons who missed the plays to see them and others to enjoy a repeat.
Between Saturday 22 December and Wednesday January 2, 2003, the plays - Everyone Has A Secret, Caught In The Act, Trials Of The Ghanaian, Dont Mess With A Woman and Different Shades Of Women will roll off the National Theatre stage.
In Everyone Has A Secret (22nd December) there are many intriguing stories in one. Meet Bonsu, a man recovering from a motor accident and desperate to keep the facts of the accident from his wife.
Also meet Bonsu’s wife, Esinam who is involved with a dangerous drug baron she thinks is a saint. Then there is Mawuli who knows the reason why the maidservant had to leave.
Caught in the Act (29th December) tells the story of Martin who returns from trek to find his wife in bed with another man. That was bad enough for him but when his wife showed no remorse and the strange man asked for privacy; Martin begins to wonder if he’s dreaming.
But his nightmare has only just begun as his next move opens the Pandora’s Box and threatens to blow his world and that of his parents apart.
In Trials of a Ghanaian (30th December), KSM returns home after studying and working in the USA with a mission: to change Ghana.
Follow KSM on this hilarious journey as he struggles to come to grips with a country and a system that accepts the unacceptable; a country where lights go on and off as if children are playing with the switches, a country where Coca Cola and Pepsi are treated as the same thing.
Don’t Mess with a Woman (1st January, 2013) is the play in which Naa says, “I don’t think a woman knows herself anymore when she is pushed to the wall”
What do you do when your best friend steals your man? For Naa, that is a simple matter – just steal her wedding. And how do you steal a woman’s wedding? This is a story told with wit and humour.
The final play in the bouquet, Different Shades Of Women (2nd January, 2013) has Bishop Boafo rushing back from a journey when news reaches him of a breakaway in his church, spearheaded by his favourite pastor.
He feels betrayed and taken advantage of. He is angry and is threatening physical and spiritual action but his wife is restraining him. Should he listen to his wife and let things be or ignore his wife and go ahead with his plans?
This play details the lives of four women, their impact on their homes and lives, their approach to life and interaction with the men in their lives.
Different Shades Of Women also answers the important question “What is responsibility of a wife to her household and husband?”
