By Taiye Olayemi
Nollywood actress, Damipe Adekoya, has revealed plans to deliver the extraordinary lifetime of legendary Queen Moore Oronsen to the stage, to have a good time African girls’s resilience and hardworking nature.
Adekoya, the Chief Executive Officer of Zevicar Productions, disclosed this throughout a information convention on Wednesday in Lagos.
She mentioned the play, put collectively to depict the life and instances of the legendary queen, is entitled “Moore Oronsen (The Mystical Queen)”.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) studies 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 instances from Feb. 22, 2025 to Feb 23, 2025, on the Alliance Francaise, Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to her, the play will spotlight the African girls’s legendary nature of arduous work, and the way their necessary roles in the neighborhood are being handed down by means of generations.
She mentioned this was meant to take folks down reminiscence lane, to deliver historical past alive and have a good time the legend who continues to be being worshipped in Owo.
Adekoya mentioned that the theatrical expertise would honour Queen Oronsen’s historic legacy, shedding gentle on her outstanding journey and unwavering dedication to success.
“I’m somebody who loves tales that discuss girls generally 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 thrice proper from 2012, I’m glad that is gaining traction.
“This is an try to start out telling tales about girls generally. I’m the voice of the African girl.
“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 mentioned.
Making reference to how the love story between Queen Oronsen and her husband, Olowo Rerengejen, led to struggle, Adekoya mentioned Africans may 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 geared toward educating audiences about Queen Oronsen’s outstanding legacy, encourage dialogue about girls’s contributions to historical past, foster a way of neighborhood and shared heritage in addition to empower girls and ladies by means of Queen Oronsen’s story.
“Queen Oronsen’s legacy is a testomony to the power and resilience of girls. This manufacturing is a tribute to her braveness and a celebration of the unbreakable spirit that defines girls.
“I want to encourage women to always be at the forefront of success as exemplified by Queen Oronsen,” she mentioned.
Also talking, Emmanuel Adejumo, the Artistic Director for the play, mentioned Africans ought to be careful for the way the well-known Odudu dance peculiar with Owo folks in Ondo State could be remodeled.
Adejumo mentioned there could be a show of contemporary and conventional methods of rendering the dance in the midst of presenting the play.
Oluwasegun Adeyemi, the Choreographer for the manufacturing, assured that he’ll seamlessly combine up to date and conventional dance methods to create distinctive and charming dance kinds tailor-made particularly for the play. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
