Myth of night runners adopted for theatre

Scenes from The Myth of the Night Dancers — Abasezi. Picture: Elvis Ogina

Draped in bark cloth and other traditional paraphernalia, a vicious troupe of night dancers dig up a grave and briskly yank a corpse from it, drool over the coming feast on human flesh — a delicacy in their world..

Soon, the cannibals cheerfully dance over the corpse boiling in a huge container before they hungrily feast on it. But their party is cut short when the community finally catches them in the middle of this bizzare act.