Queen Oronsen’s epic story set for stage in Lagos
By Taiye Olayemi
Nollywood actress, Damipe Adekoya, has revealed plans to convey the extraordinary lifetime of legendary Queen Moore Oronsen to the stage, to rejoice African ladies’s resilience and hardworking nature.
Adekoya, the Chief Executive Officer of Zevicar Productions, disclosed this throughout a information convention on Wednesday in Lagos.
She stated the play, put collectively to depict the life and occasions of the legendary queen, is entitled “Moore Oronsen (The Mystical Queen)”.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) stories that Queen Oronsen is a deity from Yoruba mythology, who was the partner of Olowo Rerengejen, the standard ruler of Owo Kingdom in Ondo state, over 600 years in the past.
The annual Igogo Festival in Owo is widely known in her honour yearly in September.
Adekoya famous that the play could be staged 5 occasions from Feb. 22, 2025 to Feb 23, 2025, on the Alliance Francaise, Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to her, the play will spotlight the African ladies’s legendary nature of arduous work, and the way their necessary roles locally are being handed down by way of generations.
She stated this was meant to take individuals down reminiscence lane, to convey historical past alive and rejoice the legend who remains to be being worshipped in Owo.
Adekoya stated that the theatrical expertise would honour Queen Oronsen’s historic legacy, shedding mild on her outstanding journey and unwavering dedication to success.
“I’m somebody who loves tales that discuss ladies normally and in my analysis as a author, I discovered that we hardly ever hear the historical past of the vast majority of our feminine legends.
“We simply hear bits and items of tales about them.
“This is a deliberate effort to bolster Queen Moore Oronsen’s historic legacy, I’ve tried doing this 3 times proper from 2012, I’m glad that is gaining traction.
“This is an try to start out telling tales about ladies normally. I’m the voice of the African lady.
“I want to project women in general. As a girl’s girl, a woman’s woman, I like to always project what a woman is, whether emotionally, financially, or anything,” she stated.
Making reference to how the love story between Queen Oronsen and her husband, Olowo Rerengejen, led to struggle, Adekoya stated Africans might draw inspiration from such intriguing story.
According to her, the play manufacturing will delve into Queen Oronsen’s struggles, triumphs, and visionary management, showcasing her unwavering dedication to her neighborhood.
“The play is aimed toward educating audiences about Queen Oronsen’s outstanding legacy, encourage dialogue about ladies’s contributions to historical past, foster a way of neighborhood and shared heritage in addition to empower ladies and women by way of Queen Oronsen’s story.
“Queen Oronsen’s legacy is a testomony to the power and resilience of ladies. This manufacturing is a tribute to her braveness and a celebration of the unbreakable spirit that defines ladies.
“I want to encourage women to always be at the forefront of success as exemplified by Queen Oronsen,” she stated.
Also talking, Emmanuel Adejumo, the Artistic Director for the play, stated Africans ought to be careful for the way the well-known Odudu dance peculiar with Owo individuals in Ondo State could be reworked.
Adejumo stated there could be a show of recent and conventional methods of rendering the dance in the middle of presenting the play.
Oluwasegun Adeyemi, the Choreographer for the manufacturing, assured that he’ll seamlessly combine modern and conventional dance methods to create distinctive and fascinating dance kinds tailor-made particularly for the play. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
