The Lion and the Jewel

Apr 20 2008 - 2:00pm Edison Theatre

935-5858

Performing Arts. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate for Literature, wrote several light-hearted plays that examine political ideas about colonization, culture, and gender roles...and often make fun of Westernized school teachers. In The Lion and the Jewel, Lukunle, the teacher, tries to woo Sidi, the Jewel, by belittling her and trying to convince her to adhere to modern ways. Meanwhile, Baroka, the tribe's chief, decides that Sidi would make an excellent addition to his already large collection of wives and concubines. In a carnival of dance and song, Sidi must find her distiny somewhere between the old and the new, between the modern and the traditional, in this comedy of the human condition.