Author : Errol G. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521624435
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Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781919876061
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139451499
This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Africa
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Author : Michael Etherton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1000952525
Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but that its existence as literature and in performance is necessarily different. The analysis shows that literature tends to replace performance; and drama, removed from the popular domain, becomes elitist. The book’s richness lies in the constantly stimulating analysis of ‘art’ theatre, as exemplified in protest plays, in African adaptations and transpositions of such classical subjects as the Bacchae and Everyman, in plays on African history, on colonialism and neo-colonialism. The final chapters argue that the form of African drama needs to evolve as the content does.
Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253028078
" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.
Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2021-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030472740
This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of the Horn of Africa. The book shows how the theatres of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, little known in the outside world, have been among the continent's most politically important, commercially successful, and widely popular; making work almost exclusively in local languages and utilizing hybrid forms that have privileged local cultural modes of production. A History of African Theatre is relevant to all who have interests in African cultures and their relationship to the history and politics of the East African region.
Author : Paul Carter Harrison
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1566399440
Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."
Author : Sola Adeyemi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 152753796X
Fémi Òsófisan is a major dramatist from Nigeria who experiments with forms and theatrical traditions. This book focuses on his development as a dramatist and his contribution to world drama as a postcolonial African writer whose major preoccupation has been to question the colonial and postcolonial issues of identity in theatre, literature and performance. The volume explores how Òsófisan exploits his Yorùbá heritage in his drama and the performances of his plays by reading new meanings into popular mythology, and by re-writing history to comment on contemporary social and political issues. Òsófisan has often introduced new motifs and narratives to energise dramatic performances in Nigeria and globally, and this text discusses developments in his theatre practices in the context of changing cultural trends.
Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393975291
Presents eight twentieth-century plays from seven African countries, along with explanatory notes and over thirty background writings and works of criticism.
