Details

A man lies dead on a road in Lagos. As the vultures gather, a Nigerian Everyman contemplates his own mortality from the bridge above. The Bridge is set in the 'Decade of The Dragon' - a period between 1988-98 in which corrupt and vicious military dictatorships mauled the lives of average Nigerians under the crush of jackboots. This was a period when the average Nigerian on the streets lived a perilous existence, living by the day and leaving all else to celestial forces. Many took solace in suicide, apparently too weak to confront the reality of their collective nightmares. Some, like playwright Pedro Obaseki, managed to survive incarceration in wretched, mosquito-infested jails; thousands of others were murdered or driven to take their own lives.The Bridge is an epitaph to these unsung souls, a surreal, strangely comic story of an everyman character attempting to commit suicide off a busy motorway bridge in the Lagos rush hour...What constitutes failure and success as a contemporary African man? What leads a man to want to take his life in the harsh reality of contemporary Nigeria?

Creatives/Company

Author: Pedro Obaseki
Producer: Oval House (a collaboration between artists from Lagos and London)
Director: Karena Johnson