Originally Published in West Africa Magazine (London), 1997
In his new play, The Banquet, Bate Besong has painted for us a terrifying tragic scene of human existence. He piles up dreadful images, in his characteristically calculated manner, to evoke a vision of the dehumanisation and calamity that the evil in man has compelled him to wreak upon himself. The density and intensity of the frightening images and metaphors inform us of the doom that we have unleashed upon ourselves.
The brilliance of the drama’s conception transports the audience or reader to a transcendental realm. The playwright has given us a truly sublime piece of imaginative work. The swift flow of glorious action in the play has a profound capacity to waft the spectator far beyond the reach of himself. One feels oneself delivered into a den of evil that cages the human soul, and so rendered a perpetual victim of the darkness we harbour deep within.
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if it is said that u are absurd then u are in good company.Nelson Mandela is Wole soyinka is.it is the greatest step to eternity.
Posted by: kowac eric | November 29, 2005 at 09:06 AM