Original Productions (Christian)


Original Production

- Broadway


  • Ran from 3/01/1987-3/29/1987
  • Performed at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
  • Theatre owned, and show produced by Lincoln Center Theatre
  • Also directed by Wole Soyinka 
  • Original actor for Elesin-Oba (Earle Hyman) = Also Vladimir for Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot (Beckett)!


 -Original
  • circa October 1979
  • Directed and written by Wole Soyinka
  • Famous for Soyinka insisting on an animal sacrifice before opening night*


*Lived his life as a mixture of African and American culture
  • Wanted to sacrifice a goat, but settled on a young rooster. Only expected a few people to come, but the entire cast and crew came to see the ritual.
  • Said, "The universal realities and the immutable human experiences -- death, life, birth, and procreation, for example -- in all cultures are governed by irrationality. Africans differ from Westerners not in the fact that they are sometimes irrational but in their ways of being irrational." - Washington Post, Joseph McLellan, October 30th, 1979
  • No Coca Cola or Popcorn!
  • The opening performance was accepted warmly, with some people nicknaming him the "African Shakespeare", so he understandably stands by it.

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