| The Palace. The King is pacing up and down and when
spotlight beams on him, he begins a prolonged and what seems like
infectious laughter. |
| AMUNIWAYE: |
|
Who will? Tell me who will allow
a woman with two left feet stay in his palace and cause confusion. I am
happy she has now left at last. She did know my strategy worked and she
has now gone back to her father’s house - even with some of my dresses.
I did not know she had two left feet when her father brought her. I could
have rejected her. It was after Adin left that I noticed she walks
sideways like a crab. |
| (Ololo
enters the palace) |
| AMUNIWAYE: |
|
What do you want by this time of the day? |
| OLOLO: |
|
My husband says I should give you this pendant to be worn |
| AMUNIWAYE: |
|
I see. Let me have it then. (She hands
it over to Amuniwaye) |
| OLOLO: |
|
Take this gift - (Stammering, they both stand on one spot and stare at each
other’s face) Tell your husband I... |
| (He
holds her hand and drags her to an inner room. Adin enters the
palace holding the sharpened cutlass looking everywhere. Suddenly there are shouts backstage. Abeke, the praise
singers and other people from within and outside the palace run on stage
helter-skelter. |
| The
King and Ololo are still screaming. The people peep and find out they are
joined together. They scream. Oloko now enters). |
| TOWNSPEOPLE: |
|
Baba, come. Come and help us separate them. |
| OLOKO: |
|
Who? |
| TOWNSPEOPLE: |
|
The King is dancing shamefully with your wife. |
| (Just as Oloko is trying to peep, Adin who is coming from the scene backstage sees him.) |
| ADIN: |
|
(Angrily) It
is you I’ve been looking for. |
|
|
You killed my
daughter. |
| (Before
Oloko explains himself, Adin brandishes the cutlass and the people flee
with Oloko taking the lead. |
| Adin
catches up with Oloko before he runs away, and they begin to wrestle. The
townspeople are screaming - wanting to stop the fight. The men
disentangle and stand at a distance trying to grip themselves again. Adin
holds out his cutlass and tries to strike Ololo. But
he strikes himself and falls in his own pool of blood amidst shouts by the townspeople. |
| The townspeople
come together and begin to sing a dirge.) |
| "What a shame, we have lost a friend, whose voice can longer be heard again, like those of our grandparents who had gone." |
| THE END |
