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- Tussles. Collected Plays: Collected Plays
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
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This collection groups together four plays - The Bite, Things Fall in Place, The Will and The Imprisonment of Sende Ghandi - written between 1995 and 2006. The plays in this volume dramatize a comprehensive world view. Through characters and themes chosen for their power to articulate the intended message, the plays paint a convincing and at times funny picture of human beings tussling with daily life. With clearly non-reductionist purpose, the actions all eschew the narrow minority questions so dominant in Cameroon Anglophone drama and instead reach out to concerns of a broader nature. In these plays Nyamndi does more than entertain. He reaches into the psychology of human relations and individual drives, and intimates responses to occasioned challenges. His wide, penetrating mind meanders in society: detecting the drunk before he takes his first drop; uncovering the embezzler even before he lays his hands on the collective holding; steeling the masses before the calamities of misrule descend on them; hoisting the flag of freedom long before revolutionaries come anywhere near the mast. He uses the play for healing purposes.
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- The Bite (A serio-comic play)
- Characters
- p. 3
- Scene 1. In Lobe’s office
- pp. 4-7
- Scene 2. At the Club
- pp. 8-12
- Scene 3. In Abod’s home
- pp. 13-15
- Scene 4. In an emergency ward
- pp. 16-18
- Scene 5. In Abod’s house
- pp. 19-20
- Scene 6. In Lobe’s office
- pp. 21-23
- Scene 7. In the Club
- pp. 24-29
- Scene 9. Near Tita’s house
- pp. 31-36
- Scene 10. In Tita’s house.
- pp. 37-44
- Things Fall in Place (Inspired by Things Fall Apart)
- Characters
- p. 47
- Scene 1. Market square
- pp. 48-49
- Scene 2. Marketplace
- pp. 50-53
- Scene 3. In Okonkwo’s compound
- pp. 54-62
- Scene 4. In Okonkwo’s house
- pp. 63-66
- Scene 5. Church
- pp. 67-72
- Scene 6. In Okonkwo’s house
- pp. 73-75
- Scene 7. Village square
- pp. 76-78
- Scene 8. In the D.C.’s office
- pp. 79-83
- Scene 9. Marketplace
- pp. 84-86
- Scene 10. In Okonkwo’s compound
- pp. 87-90
- The Will
- Characters
- p. 93
- Scene 1. Late Libong’s dining room
- pp. 94-101
- Scene 2. Libong Group boardroom
- pp. 102-105
- Scene 3. Libong’s house
- pp. 106-119
- Scene 4. Boardroom
- pp. 120-122
- Scene 5. In the Libong kitchen
- pp. 123-128
- The Imprisonment of Sende Ghandi
- Characters
- p. 131
- Scene 1. Public square
- pp. 132-136
- Scene 2. On Ewang’s farm.
- pp. 137-139
- Scene 3. Co-operative Building
- pp. 140-143
- Scene 4. In charge office.
- pp. 144-152
- Scene 5. On Nonobit’s farm.
- pp. 153-159
- Scene 6. Innocent Sunday’s office
- pp. 160-163
- Scene 7. In Nonobit’s farm
- pp. 164-167
- Scene 8. In Innocent Sunday’s office
- pp. 168-171
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956717156
Related ISBN(s)
9789956558544
MARC Record
OCLC
646835943
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No