This chapter examines the recourse of two playwrights – Ọla Rotimi and Wale Ogunyẹmi – to oral historical material in their drama texts – Kurunmi and Ijaye. Both plays are adaptations of the internecine struggles and power politics of the second half of the nineteenth century Yorubaland, which culminated in the Ijaye war of the 1860s. My analysis is based on the premise that historical playwrights are not necessarily historians, but interpreters of history; therefore, individual playwright’s appropriation of history may be subjective, and the reasons of the subjectivity may vary from one writer to the other. For instance, the chapter reveals that Ọla Rotimi builds his treatment of history around the psychological impacts of the war on the protagonist, Kurunmi, but Wale Ogunyẹmi’s approach to the same historical material in his drama, Ijaye, is remarkably different. Also, while Rotimi sees Kurunmi as the dominant factor of the war, Ogunyẹmi does not identify any particular hero; but rather concerns himself with the obvious struggle to balance power among the various belligerents of the war. Understanding such a difference in the use of oral history is helpful in our assessment of the playwrights’ appropriation of oral material and, that informed the conclusion of the chapter that one finds Rotimi’s treatment of history in Kurunmi as an anchorage for his tragic vision more enterprising and engaging than Ogunyẹmi’s treatment of the same historical material in Ijaye.