The Jos Repertory Theatre had once again come up with a brilliant play. This time the ingredients for the story were collected from youth across Nigeria, with the help of the British Council’s money.
“Our house” is a metaphor for the country of Nigeria. The story runs through the history of the Nigeria. But more interestingly, the play is about portraying the reality of what is it like to be a young person in Nigeria.
There is a hard-working girl thinking of quitting her work, as she’s is requested to ‘open her legs wide open’. The understanding mom is sorry, but with the only proper income for the family, her advice is to ‘open just a little’. Finally, she beats all the business objectives, but is also diagnosed positively in a HIV test.
There’s also a young, educated, smart man, who seeks a job with a ministry, run by such an old granddaddy who can barely read due to his bad eye sight – and still he firmly sticks to the position, still seeking to advance his career, and throws out the humble applicant with no prospects of finding a job.
Based on a true story, there’s a wife who has given birth to six daughters. Despised by her family and husband for not giving birth to sons, she prays to god and tries her best to fulfill the expectations. She gets four more times pregnant with a girl and makes an abortion each time, until after the fourth one she dies to the complications of the abortion.
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