Uzoatu to launch two plays

Poet, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu will launch his plays, ‘A Play of Ghosts’ and ‘Doctor of Football’ on October 8 at the Culture Café of Prince of Anthony hotel in Anthony Village, Lagos. The event which starts at 2pm will feature a lecture on “Theatre as a Tool for Social Change” by Odia Ofeimun, a renowned […]

Poet, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu will launch his plays, ‘A Play of Ghosts’ and ‘Doctor of Football’ on October 8 at the Culture Café of Prince of Anthony hotel in Anthony Village, Lagos.
The event which starts at 2pm will feature a lecture on “Theatre as a Tool for Social Change” by Odia Ofeimun, a renowned poet.
‘Doctor of Football’ was first produced on stage in 1979 under the direction of Uzoatu in his hometown of Umuchu, Aguata LGA, Anambra State. The play draws all its characters, Ahmed, Timi, Bayo, Nnamdi, and Bassey, from every part of the Nigerian nation.
Uzoatu said: “The pivotal importance of football to Nigerians was struck home to me through the reactions of students who read my article, ‘The Match That Broke the Myth’, which was included in ‘Intensive English for Senior Secondary Schools’, a piece originally published in This Week magazine of September 15, 1986. It is my desire to inaugurate the pan-Nigerian unifier through theatre.”
‘A Play Of Ghosts’, on the other hand, focuses on what is needed to lift the oppressed people in society. It earned honourable mention as the runner-up to Bode Sowande’s ‘Tornadoes Full of Dreams’ in the 1989 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Drama Prize contest.
Uzoatu worked in This Week magazine and was the editor of Society magazine. He was the Editorial Page Editor of the Post Express and has been the chairman of the editorial board of some newspapers such as The Union.