review by Maggie Perkovich on show 5th May 2011
BLESSING AND HER BROTHER EZIKIEL ADORE
THEIR LARGER THAN LIFE FATHER AND THEIR
GLAMOROUS MOTHER AND THEIR COMFORTABLE
LIFE IN LAGOS. BUT ALL THAT CHANGES WHEN
THEIR FATHER LEAVES THEM FOR ANOTHER
WOMAN. LOSING HER JOB THE MOTHER AND THE
CHILDREN MUST LEAVE THEIR AIR CONDITIONED
COMPARTMENT TO GO AND LIVE WITH THEIR
GRANDPARENTS IN A COMPOUND IN THE NIGER
DELTA.
ADAPTING TO LIFE WITH A POOR COUNTRY SIDE
FAMILY ISA SHOCK BEYOND MEASURE.
THE GIRL BLESSED ADAPTS WELL AND LEARNS TO
JOIN HER GRANDMOTHER IN HER MIDWIFERY
SKILLS, BUT HER BROTHER WHO HAD WANTED TO
BE A DOCTOR FALLS BEHIND IN HIS SCHOOLING
AND BECOMING EMBITTERED BLAMING HIS MOTHER
FOR THEIR DOWN TURN IN FORTUNE AND FINALLY
GETS INVOLVED WITH ONE OF THE MANY BOY
GANGS THAT ARE ROAMING THE AREA.
WHEN THEIR MOTHER TAKES UP WITH A MAN
WORKING IN THE OIL BUSINESS WHICH THE LOCALS
FEEL IS DRAINING THEIR LAND AND RUINING
NIGERIA THE FAMILY BECOME ESTRANGED.
THE GRANDFATHER WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A
CHRISTIAN HAS NOW BECOME A MOSLEM WHICH
MAKES LIFE EVEN MORE COMPLICATED, BUT AS HE
IS THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY HIS WORD IS LAW.
DAN, THE MOTHER’S WHITE BOYFRIEND IS GENUINE
IN HIS LOVE FOR HER AND THE FAMILY, BUT
CANNOT PERSUADE EZIKIEL TO ACCEPT HIM AT ALL.
THIS LEADS TO TRAGIC AND UNFORESEEN
CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH BLIGHT ALL THEIR LIVES.
DESPITE THIS, THERE ARE SOME VERY FUNNY AND
AMUSING EVENTS, AS WHEN GRANDFATHER TAKES
A SECOND WIFE MUCH TO GRANDMOTHER’S
DISAPPROVAL!!!
THE WRITER TELLS OF HAPPY AND TRAGIC
OCCURENCES IN THE DAY TO DAY LIVES OF THE
FAMILY AND THEIR NEW EXTENDED FAMILY, AND
HER DESCRIPTIVE POWERS ARE SUCI1 THAT YOU
CAN SMELL THE HEAT, AND FEEL THE TENSIONS
THAT DEVELOP IN THE POLITICAL SITUATION
THERE.
I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT AND RECOMMEND WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
by Mags
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