ABOUT THE PLAY is an experience into the intriguing world of Ananse, Kweku Ananse
Odomankoma's Head-Weaver
Fellow-of-The-Cult-of-Cosmic
guists ... Supreme Strategist!
inse in the Land of Idiots tells the story - through the challenging African
lti-generic technique of Total Theatre - of how Ananse, a shrewd.
aning, tactful, versatile, intelligent and resolute character, employs his
od-given latent talent' to cope with the challenges of a hostile world.
his encounter with the people of Dim-Nyim-Lira - "Land of Idiots.
anse tactfully blends his skills to persuade, coax, flatter, ridicule, entrap.
urt
, insult, blackmail, coerce and lure King Dosey and his credulous
izenry to realize his personal dreams as he finds himself suddenly lifted
m a gloomy position of one condemned (for defiling a sacred ritual
bcess) into a veritable Prince, complete with a royal bride, a whole
iefdom, power and wealth!​