Madmen and Specialists
Madmen
and Specialists is a play by Wole
Soyinka, conceived in 1970 during his
imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War.
The play, Soyinka's eighth, has close links to the Theatre of the Absurd. Abiola Irele
(in the Lagos Sunday Times) called it "a nightmarish image of our
collective life as it appears to a detached and reflective consciousness".
It was published in London 1971 by Methuen
and in New York in 1972 by Hill
& Wang.
Madmen
and Specialists is considered Soyinka's most
pessimistic play, dealing with "man's inhumanity and pervasive corruption
in structures of power". The plot concerns Dr. Bero, a corrupt specialist,
who imprisons and torments his physician father.
References
· Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy, Virginia Coulon, A
New Reader's Guide to African Literature, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, p. 171.
·
Liukkonen, Petri. "Wole Soyinka". Books and Writers
(kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the
original
on 2 February 2015.
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