Providing direction for the Nigeria Cultural reorientation in Iyorwuese Hager’s Lifetimes
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2017
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Society for Theatre Artists (SONTA)
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The murky cloud that enveloped the Nigerian nation in the recent times has been laid in the doorstep of various degrees of social vices that manifest in corruption, child labour, illiteracy, early teenage pregnancy, sexploitation, kidnapping and other high level criminalities. These vices undoubtedly are as a result of flagrant disregard for cultural norms and ethos by the Nigerian. Consequent upon this, cultural re-orientation becomes apt in Nigeria. It is in that direction that this paper explores the role of drama as a medium capable of exciting the sought for a change in our cultural orientation using Iyorwuese Hagher's Lifetimes. Thus, we employ analytical method as a tool to identifying and excite attitudinal change that the literary piece under examination underscores in the dramaturgy of Hagher's Lifetimes. Having perused the work, our findings reveal that drama ranks amongst the veritable instruments that succinctly appeal to minds of people as well as a medium that soothingly elicit beneficial change in the people of any giving society. It has been variously established that drama is a luxuriating balm that engender the soothing magic of believability. The paper concludes that uneconomical exploration of the medium of drama is a leeway to cultural re-orientation. The paper therefore appeals to playwrights to rummage into more of the misdemeanours plaguing our society, document them for enlightenment, education, sustenance and cultural re-orientation of our society.
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Arinde,T. S. and Lateef, Rasheed Olaitan (2017). Providing direction for the Nigeria Cultural reorientation in Iyorwuese Hager’s Lifetimes. Nigerian Theatre Journal: A Journal of the Society for Theatre Artists (SONTA) I 14; 145-158 Published by the Society for Theatre Artists (SONTA)