Ẹnu dùn ń rò’fọ́…: Theatre design, audience cognition and dramatic adaptation of Fagunwa’s texts

What is it about?

The article considers the technical rigours of the visual arts in adapting texts to stage performances and juxtaposes these against the verbal, textual or storytelling efforts of playwrighting, which are are considered easier to achieve. The study uses a Yoruba philosophical idiom, "Enu Dun n Rófo" which means "Easier Said than Done" to describe the technical contrast between the "saying" or "writing" work of the playwright and the "building" or "physically sculpting" or "painting" work of the stage, costume, property and makeup designers.

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Why is it important?

Many authors have worked on the importance of theatre design and on the complex depth of the texts of D. O. Fagunwa, which constituted the case study of this research, without clarifying how Fagunwa's complex imaginations would become challenges for the fine artists of the stage who always have to deliver these complex thoughts as physically visible matter in front of the audience.

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