Two Interlocked Triangles, a new stage play by Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè, will be staged at the Wole Soyinka Theatre, University of Ibadan, on Saturday, November 28, at 5 p.m. It is part of Fàdákà Fest 2026, whose third edition is themed RE:CLAIM. The production is directed by Adedapo Treasure and produced by Uzo Dibia and OlongoAfrica.

The play opens on an ordinary morning in a middle-class home, where Mum has run out of patience with her son, JB. He has come back from Montreal with two degrees in philosophy and no interest in the “real job” a responsible young man is expected to want. JB insists he is an esports athlete who needs no office, and he keeps returning to the myth of Sisyphus to explain himself. What starts as a quarrel between mother and son gradually becomes an excavation of absence and psychological trauma. The script deals with postpartum depression, generational rifts, and the invisibility of mental health in African homes. It also shows how the legacy of military dictatorship in Nigeria, class anxiety, and parental expectation shape identity and fracture a family.

Adégòkè says the play was inspired during the COVID lockdown by a New Yorker cartoon by Adam Katzenstein that imagined Sisyphus working from home. Treasure says it fits the festival’s theme because a family reclaims its own story in order to move forward. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, publisher of OlongoAfrica, adds that the play’s turn from a family quarrel to the long shadow of the military years makes for a conversation worth having before the elections. The critic Ugochukwu Anadị has praised the play as both a therapy session and a history class.

The premiere cast is led by Michael Folagboye as JB and Temitope Agoro as Mum, with Mabel Nwaoliwe as Auntie Ediae. Benson Eluma is the dramaturg. The running time is one hour and thirty minutes. The play discusses postpartum depression and trauma. Tickets cost ₦5,000 and are available here. More information about the festival is at fadakafest.com.

OlongoAfrica is a literary and cultural space founded by Kola Túbọ̀sún in 2020. It publishes long-form journalism, travelogues, essays, poetry, and photography, and its projects include the digitised Black Orpheus archive, a fellowship programme, and a multilingual anthology of African stories in African languages. In 2024 it produced the documentary Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory, shot by Tunde Kelani, which traces Wole Soyinka’s life through the University of Ibadan bungalow where he was arrested in 1967.