British Nigeria stage and screen actor, Tayo Elesin, is in Lagos to feature in a stage play written and directed by Professor Ahmed Yerima, titled, Gowon. The play, a production of Joseph Edgar’s Duke of Somolu Foundation, is a tale of leadership, resilience and nation building, which depicts the life of retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former Nigeria’s military head of state.
Currently in rehearsals at the National Troupe of Nigeria temporary camp at the National theatre under the direction of Yerima who was at a time Director General of the National Troupe/National Theatre and currently Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Redeemers University, the play is to be staged in Lagos, from August 24 to 25. An earlier statement by the Duke of Shomolu Foundation, producers of the play, said the play would focus on Gowon’s service to Nigeria and also take a deep and cursory look at his tribe – Angas, in Plateau. “It will run with the theme of unity and lean heavily on the Gowon era policy of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reorientation put in place at the end of the civil war to heal wounds,” the statement said.
MoviedomExtra gathered that Elesin, best known for screen and stage hits including, Jujuman (2022), Honeymoon (2019) by Amy Aniobi, Overnight (2018), The Gatehouse (2016), The Journey of Alfred Small (2015), Amazing Grace by Jesse Lawrence, Race by Steve Macaulay and Our Husbands have Gone Made Again by Lookman Sanusi, will play Mrs. Gowon in this bio-drama by Duke of Som.