Because so few Kenyans have had a chance to watch 'Echoes of War' by Cleophas Malala, after its staging was sanctioned before the High Court torpedoed that decision and policemen tear-gassed students in rehearsal in Nakuru, we run the risk of inventing what the play is, and what it is not about.
That's the nature of drama, especially Kenyan drama, as the joy is in the re-telling and the attendant embellishments.
In that vein, the violent impulse by the State teargassing girls performing a play about an imaginary kingdom in the UAE was actuated by nothing more than the desire to create drama.
For one would be hard pressed to comprehend the anxieties that the State is seeking to apprehend.
