Kenneth Uphopho (left) played the valet, Samuel in The Inheritors. Here, he poses at the Wole Soyinka Award for African Literature. He is the Production Manager for the Stage Play, The Gods are not to Blame, scheduled for October 28 as part of the Muson Festival. Mary, also in the picture, is a part of the gods too. 

Mike Okorie (left) and Bukky Sanu at the Wole Soyinka award for African Literature, organized by the Lumina Foundation, early July. Both were members of the Cast of the Stage Play-"The Inheritors".  

laspapi hams for the camera at the Muson Centre while waiting to direct the rehearsal of "The gods are not to blame". "Gods" will be presented as part of the Muson Festival-Saturday, October 28 

Lydia Johnson (Joke Silva, picture left) in The Inheritors- tells her kneeling man-servant, Samuel, (Kenneth Uphopho) that his days of scheming are over. 

In the stage play,The Inheritors, Inspector Kamoru, State CID-O.C. Crime(Mike Okorie, in green) lays down the law for Lydia Akintunde H.Q. Johnson (Joke Silva, in yellow) . Her lawyer (Lanre Dele-Abrahams, centre) watches as the other policeman (Tiny Ayodeji, right) stands on guard. 

The Agip Recital Hall of the Muson Centre, Onikan-Lagos, venue of 21 of laspapi's stage productions. The 22nd will be the Inheritors, featuring Joke Silva tomorrow, August 27.

On the 28th of October, I'll be directing Ola Rotimi's "The Gods are not to blame" as part of the Muson Arts Festival.

In the picture is Femi Dada, a surveying engineer who loves to act as lightsman for stage productions. 

Ahmed Yerima's stage drama, Idemili, was presented through the month of August at the National Arts Theatre. Featuring tested thespians like Clarion Chukwura-Abiola, it depicted the pull in different directions, of tradition and religion. In the play, a mother is convinced the goddess, Idemili, must be appeased, throwing her at logger-heads with her son, a catholic priest.