Four Farcical Plays

This collection consists of four one-act farces for the stage. The Transistor Radio won a prize at the Nigerian Festival of the Arts in 1972, and also won a prize and was broadcast on the BBC's African Theatre programme. It has been broadcast also in Norway and Yugoslavia. Adapted for Nigerian television, it was the firstepisode of the highly successful television series "Basi and Company".Bride by Return has also been adapted for radio and broadcast by theBBC; The Wheel is a searing political portrayal of corruption inNigerian society; and Madam No Go Quench Again is a treatment of theclassical story of the phoenix, rendered in Nigerian pidgin English. Theplays marry social concern to a language of communication aimed at thebroadest possible public.Saro-Wiwa, Ken is the author of 'Four Farcical Plays' with ISBN 9781870716093 and ISBN 1870716094.