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The Broken Pot
Esther Adelana's İbálé e is a meditation on the redemptive force of love under sustained savage attacks by tradition and unchanging human conducts. The drama's rich dramaturgical devices-intense dialogue, fast paced action, song, and dance and dense atmospherics-aid a persistent search for identity and atonement for the heroine over the unfortunate circumstances of her existence. As change agents who are caught in the ever expanding web of deceit, intrigues and problematic cultural practices of a convulsive milieu Adeola, Adio and Adeyemi transgress against established orthodoxies, subvert conventional morality and transcend the thresholds and boundaries of acceptable actions in differing ways. Yet, in more ways than one as sinners and those sinned against- their actions result in the expansion of the transformative range and breadth of human subjectivity. İbálé is a drama of promise and possibility, an intimation of the difficult journey intersectional struggles against gender inequality, sexual violence, harmless cultural practices and divisive social stratification we will take before we arrive at the signpost of human empowerment in a more inclusive and compassionate moral, social, cultural and political order.