A Cock & Hen Story

A Cock & Hen Story

by Temienor Tuedon
A Cock & Hen Story

A Cock & Hen Story

by Temienor Tuedon

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Overview

Adam, a more or less schizophrenic and nagging husband, does not leave his wife, Eve, in peace as he seeks to make meaning of his existence even as his mind is cluttered by memories and notions of past lives and religious dogmas. His wife, emancipated in the extreme, would rather be a man whilst remaining a woman. Her phobia of the kitchen and the labor room is telling. Husband and wife slug it out in this season of anomie. They are the reason for the season. While Adam seems to have a vague sense of loss, Eve is blissfully oblivious of their state and simply paddles on, her intuition deadened by the craze for glamor and tinsel – a fact that underscores her husband's despair in the play. The play adopts a staccato of language styles appropriate to the purposelessness, drift and decline the playwright seeks to portray – from pseudo poetry, through the pedestrian or prosaic to regular common usage and descending many times to the level of the excremental and vulgar! There is actually an excremental motif that runs through the play with a toilet at the background that continually underscores the waste, emptiness and decay typical of this new world in which, despite all the odds, the couple simply waltz on, swaying to the rhythm of their base sexual impulses – a definition of their real status, all considered!


Product Details

BN ID: 2940045673365
Publisher: Temienor Tuedon
Publication date: 02/03/2014
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 107 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Temienor Tuedon was born in Warri and raised in Benin, both in Southern Nigeria, West Africa. He studied Literature in English at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (now Obafemi Awolowo University) from where he graduated in 1978. After a spell as a Literature and English teacher, he embarked on a career in Human Resource Management with the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria where he was formally trained in that discipline and worked from 1981 – 1999. He obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism in 1999 and a Masters in Industrial and Labour Relations from the University of Lagos in 2002. He presently pursues mainstream occupations in farming, publishing and Human Resource Management Consulting and is based in Lagos, South-West Nigeria. He is married with children and has some six other plays as well as a text book on Human Resource Management to his credit.
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