The Sisters
In the wake of the sudden death of Nigeria's long-serving president, three sisters—Taiwo, Funmi, and Toun—along with their devoted companion Nana, gather in the presidential villa to observe mourning rituals before the state funeral. Funmi, the grieving First Lady, is besieged by secret revelations and phone calls from women claiming to have borne the late president's children. Taiwo, wheelchair-bound from an attack that saw her own husband executed as a coup plotter by the president's regime, harbors deep bitterness and refuses to participate in false piety. As personal resentments and hidden hypocrisies unravel within the villa's walls, the sisters' intense clashes lay bare the transience of political power, the decay of the ruling elite, and the painful truths underlying family bonds.
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The Sisters is one long, tortuous movement of shocking revelations that demonstrate the fact that humanity is flawed and that we know little about ourselves and the world.
From Kraft Books The Sisters is about the battle with bitter truth and painful reality. It unravels the vanity and deceit that characterize the lives of the elites in the society and stresses also, the transciency of political power and social status. The president's death provides an avenue for the sisters to come to grip with these realities and re-examine their lives after all the disappointments and misfortunes they have been through.
From Kraft Books For four days, "The Sisters" ran at the elite MUSON stage. But for those familiar with drama, the play's inherent gritty realism draws attention to the way of the society.
Sylvester Asoya on The News (Lagos)
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