The Playwright as a Social Commentator: A Focus on Basil Wikina's Resurrection of the Dead

I have written about my own experiences and about what I have seen in others around me. I have been true to all this and have not cheated my generation. I did not attempt to simplify matters and issues for the audience when presenting my plays, though that would have been easier occupation…. My plays... contain my perceptions of society and its value and I cannot write what I do not perceive (Vijay, 1966: 71)