Last but not least was Justin Butcher’s
The Patience of Mr Job, a satirical reinterpretation of the biblical story of Job which relocates it to a fictional modern-day West African country. Here, Jude Akuwudike’s Mr Job is a prominent villager who believes utterly in the benevolence of the West, so much so that he obeys every instruction from the World Development Agency, even as it strips the village of its forests, fertility and fortunes. The price for ignoring the warnings of his wife, the lovely Adjoa Andoh, is to endure a whole raft of disasters that strip him of even more, his identity, his colour. It’s a sharp attack on the other side of globalisation and how climate change might affect the world, and entertaining with it.