C-Murder: A Miscarriage of justice?

Not to the family of the young fan slain. But
what if C-Murder was "programmed" by renegade
agents of Nigerian Intelligence to act out
in such a way? It is a tragedy however you
look at it, oh so reminiscent of the play by
the author, Rollo Tomono, and his "The Revenge of
a Rainbow" shown at the Fox theater in 2002.

The play is set in sunny Georgia where Gautama Purnell
arrives in 1998, seeking to leave behind the sleepy
enclave of Jefferson-Best, a somnolent township in
Upstate Minessotta, where he has just been acquitted
of statutory rape. Though innocent, the scars of
the trial have led him to leave behind certain enterprise
(his father in J-Best owns a shoe store) for the uncertain
future in Roswell Georgia. There he finds himself befriended
by a certain shady character, Oman Justin who feeds him
salacious details about the lives of the stars. "She sucked
my dick" Oman dismisses a certain pop star who has just racked
up multiplatinum sales. The audience roars in delight.

Soon, despite the inability to trust in Oman, Gautama finds
himself as Musical Director of Club Medina, a chic upscale
surround on Orangetree Circle, known worldwide as a tourist
haven. There he is asked to witness on behalf of a distant
cousin of his, Kara Purnell, who asks him what life has to offer
if he takes the advice of the Secret Service and cleans up his
act. "Clean up your act first" he tells Kara who does so. Kara
goes on to b-school and comes out squeaky clean, only to be
arrested by the Secret Service for crimes he committed before
he took their advice. A tragic play indeed. It turns out
that these crimes he committed were committed because the Secret
Service failed to see the metaphors that led him to a life of crime
in those days and so Gautama, by now a musical superstar, is
forced to confront his past in his cousin Kara Purnell, who "had
nothing to do but sell weed in Kadesh" in those days. The play
builds up to a stinging indictment of the US Secret Service and
the National Security Agency, "unable to protect their own children"
for failing to deal with the extant metaphors "as though" Purnell
says finally, "they are occupied by a foreign power."
As though occupied by a foreign power. The play does offer
some sunshine at the end when the National Security Agency
determines that it has made "some errors" in classifying Purnell
with the AOT-1 "lethal weapon" security status. But even
to us in the real world, it didn't go far enough.

Actors
.......
Jerry Simpson
Patsy Fillmore
Marisol Batcher
Maya June-Ayiti (lead)
Dulles Osteen
Mueller Parisani
Margarie Rogers Muhammad (as the shadowy Military Intelligence Officer)
and "the messengers" troupe