Beginning today, and running until March 5, Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel will be staged at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston.
The play, one of the required texts for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate English B exam, is being put on with the students who are writing the exam in mind, but would make delightful viewing for anyone.
In the play, Soyinka tells the story of Sidi (the jewel), a young Yoruba woman caught up in herself, who is being wooed by a