V.Monologues and The Tarzan Monologues faceoff in Accra!

On Saturday October 23, it would be a different kind of a battle of the sexes at the National Theatre of Ghana as audiences tune on for ‘The Ultimate Face-Off: V. Monologues v. The Tarzan Monologues’.

Starring some of Nollywood’s favourite stars such as Bimbo Manuel, Iretiola Doyle, and Kate Henshaw-Nuttall , ‘The Ultimate Face-Off’ is an exciting, funny and highly acclaimed music and dance filled stage play about the complex relationships between the African man and woman; on Money, Sex, Erectile Dysfunction, Sexual Abuse, Religion, Emotional Pressure, Sterility, Virginity, Infant Mortality, Job Loss, Relationships, Age, Marriage, Women Trafficking and much, much more.

Director Wole Oguntokun wrote ‘The Tarzan Monologues’ with assistance from Tunde Aladese, Tracey Lebeanya, Ijeoma Ogwuegbu and Princess Olufemi Kayode on ‘The V. Monologues’. Wole Ogintokun’s partnership with The V Monologues and the Tarzan Monologues started approximately four years ago, with the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (K.I.N.D.) sponsoring and producing Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues in March of 2006. It was an insight into the world of women unlike anything he had ever experienced and his horizons were broadened considerably.

He comments: “In December 2007, my place in the history of the monologues began when I was approached by KIND to head a writing team made up of females that would create an African version of the Vagina Monologues. That gave birth to the V Monologues. I was also appointed the director of the premiere of the Monologues, which took place in five venues in Abuja and Lagos in March 2008. In 2009 and as a fall-out of my involvement with the Women’s monologues, I wrote the Tarzan Monologues, a compilation of issues that affect the male gender.”

The Tarzan Monologues was first performed in all the Sundays in October of 2009 and then at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos in all the Sundays in February 2010. The performances of “Tarzan” caught the attention of K.I.N.D. and “The Ultimate Face-Off” was born. In the truest sense of the phrase, the Monologues are here to stay, as it makes its journey to Ghana for the first time.

The Ultimate Face-Off plays at The National Theatre on Saturday October 23 at 3:30pm, 5:30pm and 7:30pm. Tickets available at GHc 25 at Koala, Melting moments and silverbird lifestyle shop or call 024345486.