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The play, Ọfọ, is the story of an Igbo community that is confronted with the contradictions of its tradition and Christian religion. We find in in the play an iconoclastic character, Nneoma, whose marriage is disrupted twice by tradition and religion. She then takes it upon herself to redeem her fellow maidens, who are victims of the clash of tradition and religion. But is it easy to meddle with the claws of tradition and remain unscathed? And when tradition engages in a struggle with modernity, can it still maintain ifs rigidity?