In the show, “Bout to Get On, the protagonists, the ori.Xas have been separated from their comm and materialization device, the e.X.u. Those in the know will immediately recognize Exú, or Eshu or Eleggua, or Legba, the Yórùba supernatural responsible for decision making, perception, responsbility, and all types of communication: intra-, inter-, and extra-species.
Often considered male, he is the interlocuteur, the speech before the spoken; the master translator…or static on the line. He is the epic journey, the long and often wrong way home, the fork in the road, the point of contact.
