THE LOST MARRIAGE RITES is a play that the playwright has used to depict the original true marriage culture of the Iteso speaking tribe/ people who inhabit parts of the Eastern and North Eastern regions of Uganda.
After carrying out research, the playwright discovers that, some parts of the original norms to be followed when a daughter and son get married are no more. Except a few of the cultural practices are still high on the agenda.
It has however been noted that the Christian faith and the modernity that the western world have come with have brain brushed the common man and made him to believe culture as barbaric and backward.
The lost marriage rites were greatly practiced before the massive cattle raids of the 1980s, mostly because the Iteso economy was doing well and they had a lot to feast on during marriage ceremonies. The common man never believed in anything apart from revolving his thinking within his culture and the cattle.
The playwright discovers that the whole procedure is dramatic and tries to depict it in form of this play entitled, the lost marriage rites.
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