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Death and the King's Horseman

START: You are waiting for dawn white ma...

Elesin Oba

Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Overview

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Show
Death and the King's Horseman
Character
Elesin Oba
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene 5
Time & Place
A barred cell in the cellar beneath the European Club in Oyo, Nigeria. Early 1940s.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Text

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START: You are waiting for dawn white man. I hear you saying to yourself: only so many hours until dawn and then the danger is over. All I must do is to keep him alive tonight.

[... ... ...]

END: I heard them and I shed all thoughts of earth. I began to follow the moon to the abode of the gods . . . servant of the white king, that was when you entered my chosen place of departure on feet of desecration.

For full monologue please see Soyinka, Wole, Death and the King’s Horseman, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1975, pp. 62.

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