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In the midst of all this, Segun and his company are staunchly independent and critical of those in powers. In the first video Segun introduces himself, his company and the place where they work. When he was filming, Lagos had been in lockdown for four days as the reality of the Covid virus was just beginning to sink in in this enormous sprawling megacity of over 20 million inhabitants.

It also gives you a chance to brush up your Nigerian Pidgin English. Skip to content News. What do you consider to be your biggest achievement as a theater practitioner? The fact that I am still alive and a father are my biggest achievements. If you were not a theatre practitioner, what would you have become? I would have become a hairdresser or mechanic.

You often dress in traditional attire. What influences that? That is what I feel comfortable wearing. I wear jeans a lot too. At times, I wear trainers and shirts. I just feel more comfortable with wearing traditional attire. What are some of the notable achievements of Crown Troupe? We have been around despite many odds. We would not have had this interview 25 years ago but we are having it now and that is because we have been around.

What are the downsides of being a theatre practitioner? We face many struggles all the time. Sometimes, I wish I could just stay in my house and people would come to watch my plays. When it comes to other professions like medicine and law, people go to meet them. But in our profession, it feels like we are going to meet people or they are doing us a favour.

That can be a bit discouraging. Will you encourage any of your children to become full-time theatre practitioners? Yes, I will. But, I will also advise them to learn something else. What are your hobbies? I love to travel to new places in company with friends. I like to be happy. Happiness is my hobby. All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.

Contact: [email protected] Blessing Enenaite. Contact: [email protected]. Stay informed and ahead of the curve! Don't miss a headline — join now! Advertise with us Tuesday, January 28, PunchNG Menu:. Art influences every culture, civilisation — Segun Adefila 23rd January By Blessing Enenaite. Kindly share this story:. Blessing Enenaite.

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Gospel singer pleads not guilty to killing Nasarawa corper February 19, Stay informed and ahead of the curve! Don't miss a headline — join now! Advertise with us Tuesday, January 28, PunchNG Menu:. Traditional dance cannot die — Segun Adefila 28th October By Blessing Enenaite. Kindly share this story:. Yours has been a craft doggedly nurtured and honed during these two decades of dedication and you have only just begun, with an ever-increasing certainty of your passion for the arts.

What sets the Crown Troupe project apart from other similar performance groups is an intellectual radicalism that you are always willing to bring to your theatre and this has paved way for creative engagements with the work of other dramaturges, and mentors such as Professor Soyinka, the late Bode Osanyin, and Tunde Kelani. It is this same sense of intellectualism that you brought to bare in seminars and conversations at the Institute of African Studies when, together with Biodun Bello and Abiodun Ogidan, you joined the MA program in Performance Studies.

Having had such moments of opportune conversations with you, I can tell that your deference to your own indigenous performance forms, for instance, and not any sheepish imitation of Western theatrical styles catalyzes and sustains the creative intensities, which affirm Crown Troupe as a quintessential theatre group in Nigeria. Watching you and the troupe tell stories through poetry and dance, I can tell that the essence of your works over the years has been an awareness of Yoruba spirituality avowed by your loyalty to the masquerade festivals you grew up seeing in Omu Aran.