Veteran nollywood actor, Prince Dele Odule is shutting down his hometown, Oru Ijebu in Ijebu North Local Government area of Ogun state on 29th December, 2022 with a stage play.
The event is billed as one of the activities marking this year’s Oru Day celebration.
He is expected to perform alongside with other heavyweights in Nollywood such as: Peju Ogunmola, Femi Adebayo, Yomi Duro Ladipo, Gbemisola Faleti, Pa Tunbosun Odunsi (a.k.a Baba Amoye) and a host of others.
In a press release signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of Oru Peoples’ Day 2022 Planning Committee, Comrade Akeem Temitope Akilo, “the stage play is part of the week-long programme of activities lined up to mark the 38th edition of the Annual Oru Peoples’ Day which comes up between Monday, 26th December 2022 and Saturday, 31st December 2022 for the grand finale”.
The statement explained that the stage play, ‘Isokan’ was written and directed by Dele Odule, with Yomi Duro- Ladipo as a co-Director, while Prof. Bakare Ojo Rasaki is the Supervising Director.
The statement said, ‘Isokan’ deftly told the story of a king of a community who was wrongfully convicted of theft by his subjects and was punished publicly. The King invoked emotional curses on the community. The invocation of the curse by the King caused harm and misfortune to the entire community for decades.
The statement said Dele Odule who doubles as the producer explained that, the generational curse must be reversed, the land must be healed from the curse and, in so doing, open the door for physical healing, progress, development of the community and peaceful enthronement of a new King. And, the community must remain free of the curse once that bondage has been broken.
