A DIRECTOR’S READING OF TRACIE CHIMA UTOH’S OUR WIVES HAVE GONE MADE AGAIN!

Directing is an interpretative exploration anchored on the harmonization theory, which reconciles different perspectives. This process involves an understanding and manipulation of a script, stage and actors and other production items. Among these, the script, written, improvised or devised is primary to the interpretive processes. This paper is thus an attempt to use the artistic and literary methodology to engage a directorial analysis of Tracie Chima Utoh’s Our Wives Have Gone Made Again! It is observed that fundamental to directorial success is textual analysis of the script to be produced. A foundational premise worthy of note is that the title, characters and characterization, language and thought use are serious areas that the director must pay attention to, in understanding Tracie Chima Utoh’s Our Wives Have Gone Mad Again! The above considerations, which are primary to directing, as a craft remains crucial and core to dramatic action and the framework of the entire play as an interpretive act