Gerry the casual Republican, appeases his nationalistic tribal Gods, too.
21 May.
Fr. Jack – perhaps in his one monologue? – will tell of his relationship with his people, his house boy. And this must mirror/echo the relationships in the house. So that when Fr. Jack + Father + Rose dance at the end all these will have come together in a comprehensive sympathy and mutual support and – importantly – in revelation. This (above) must be punctuated by Fr. Jack’s story: –
his houseboy always doing his God-appeasing dance/shuffle.
Fr. Jack forbidding it. But watching from a distance
now Fr. Jack tutoring Father + Rose in it
[30 May. Is this vague notion above somehow close to the core of the play? — the notion of something forbidden, or at least something not publicly blessed, being expressed + celebrated in dance.
[Was Fr. Jack in some way reprimanded by his Ugandan superiors? Was he sent home in his incipient dotage – the excuse being his malaria? – because HE WAS REVERTING TO NATIVE PRACTISES? – beginning to go to seed?
His intellectual simplicity – naivety is patent. For him, a colonial instrument of both church + state, there would be no conflict in honouring the District Commission and doing the Rain (?) Dance. Would Father try to educate him?) Top
