Ìjàpá In Èkó!, a play by Erioluwa Popoola, will be staged at Freedom Park on Lagos Island on 7 and 8 November. The production is listed on the official Lagos Fringe ticket platform as part of the festival’s November programme.
Both performances are scheduled for 7pm. The booking page identifies Itan Production and offers regular tickets at ₦10,000 and VIP tickets at ₦20,000 for each evening.
The advertised prices exclude charges added at checkout. The platform lists a five per cent VAT charge and a card-processing fee, and says tickets are non-refundable. Freedom Park’s address is 1 Hospital Road, Old Prison Ground, Lagos Island.
Popoola’s work spans stage and screen. In a May 2023 interview with What Kept Me Up, she described beginning professional acting in 2018 after completing a three-month certificate course at Royal Arts Academy.
Although her training focused on film, her early professional work was in theatre. She joined Kininso Koncepts after meeting a director with a theatre company, then began attending auditions.
Popoola told the publication that many auditions had produced no result. She said the screen roles she had secured by that point came through referrals, including her part in the Africa Magic Yoruba series Irora Iya.
For that television role, a friend who had started a casting agency asked her to send a monologue. She said she did not initially know which production it was for. The submission led to her joining the series.
“Talent is not enough,” she said while discussing auditions and the uncertainty of waiting for a callback. She identified theatre director Joshua Alabi as a mentor outside the Film Rats Club.
Her stage work also appears in Kininso’s production records. The company credits her as a performer in Imaginaction, presented at the Shehu Musa Yar’Dua Centre in Abuja on 24 May 2025. That production combined ensemble storytelling, music, spoken word and satire around civic participation and community action.
Lagos Fringe runs from 3 to 8 November under the theme Let’s Play. Its programme combines theatre, film screenings, workshops, music and other public events, alongside sessions restricted to delegates or participants.
The festival’s published schedule includes an outdoor marketplace, film screenings and discussions about earning income from digital platforms. The programme also lists Women in the Arts activities and a Shakespeare Centre Lagos research engagement.
Freedom Park is one of several festival locations. Other ticketed productions are listed at the J. Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History and the British Council, with individual shows carrying their own dates and prices.
The park occupies the former Broad Street Prison site. Its current programme brings live performance, exhibitions and cultural activity into a space that also preserves part of Lagos Island’s colonial history.
For Ìjàpá In Èkó!, the current live booking page provides the two November dates and ticket categories. It says fuller production details are still to come. Tickets are issued by email with a QR code for each person, which can be displayed on a phone or printed for admission.
Archive venue photograph, 26 August 2022, not the production: Olusola David, Ayibiowu via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized; photographic adaptations retain the same licence.
