LOVE TRILOGY Gibbons has utilised the mourning rite of the Spiritual Baptists in SHEPHERD, stick fighting in I LAWAH, kaiso and carnival in OGUN AYAN AS IN PAN. All three plays capture the hopes and fears of ordinary people, using folk forms as a source of history and as a dramatic framework and structuring device for the plays themselves. The net result of this approach to dramaturgy is a theatre that speaks out of collective experience and speaks to the collective conscience in a manner that audiences can intuitively and readily identify with.