Madmen and Specialists
Madmen and Specialists Author: Wole Soyinka
First Performance: 1970, Waterford, Connecticut
Published: 1971
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Dr Bero's surgery and the space before it, Nigeria, 1969
Cast: 7m, 3f
Four eccentric beggars, crippled in the recent civil war between the breakaway state of Biafra and the Nigerian government, are posted outside Dr Bero's surgery. They are guarding someone, who turns out to be Bero's father. Bero, who switched from being a medical specialist to become an army intelligence officer, arrives back from the conflict. Welcomed home by his sister and the Priest, Bero reveals that he has become a cannibal. His father, so outraged by the inhumanity of the war, had served up human flesh to the officers, and they, Bero included, developed a liking for it. Bero now keeps the Old Man,...
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