The Gods Are Not To Blame

When the gods commend, we men must obey! This statement from the play sums up the thrust of Ola Rotimi’s classic play, The Gods Are Not To Blame.

Odewale, the central character is destined from birth to kill his father and marry his mother, a taboo in African socio-cultural setting.

The play is based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and it touches on the nerve of an African society where a man by fate is condemned to fail.