Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 321 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781787441583
,
178744158X
Series Statement:
African Theatre v. Volume 16
Content:
The translation & transcription of Mother Uganda & Her Children / Patience Nitumwesiga & Team -- Mother Uganda & Her Children / Rose Mbowa -- The context & making of Rose Mbowa's Mother Uganda & Her Children / Patrick Mangeni & Jane Plastow -- Majangwa: a Promise of Rains / Robert Serumaga -- Notions of indigeneity: Uganda's Robert Serumaga / Don Rubin -- The Guest (Engida): A One Act Play / Manyazewal Endeshaw -- An absurdist in Addis Ababa: Manyazewal Endeshaw's Engida / Zerihun Birehanu & Jane Plastow -- If: a tragedy of the ruled / Ola Rotimi -- Ola Rotimi: creating theatrical spaces / Martin Banham -- Morountodun / Femi Osofisan -- Morountodun: a retrospective commentary / Biodun Jeyifo -- The Legend of Wagadu as Seen by Sia Yatabere / Moussa Diagana -- Moussa Diagana & The Legend of Wagadu as Seen by Sia Yatabere: advocating anarchy in Mauritania? / Jane Plastow -- Book reviews: Robert Mshengu Kavanagh, A Contended Space - The Theatre of Gibson Mtutuzeli Kente / Michael Walling -- Edward Wilson-Lee, Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet: Shakespeare in Swahililand / Jane Plastow -- Francis Nii-Yartey, African Dance in Ghana: Contemporary Transformations / 'Funmi Adewole -- Olu Obafemi, Dark Times Are Over? and Running Dreams / Abdullahi S. Abubakar
Content:
This volume makes available some of the most influential, imaginative and exciting plays to come out of East and West Africa from the 1970s to the present day. Deliberately excluding playscripts by the regions' two best known playwrights, Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose work was profiled in African Theatre 13 the editors have selected plays, some well-known and some less widely available, that represent the diversity and richness of these two very different African regions. The playscripts include a new translation from Amharic, as well as the English version of a play originally written in French, making more theatre from some of Africa's multitude of languages accessible to an English-reading audience. Each script is accompanied by an essay from an expert on the work, the playwright, and the context in which the play was produced, so that the volume will be of maximum use to both researchers and students of African theatre
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1847011721
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Six plays from East & West Africa Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB : James Currey, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer ; Rochester, NY, US : Boyell & Brewer, [2017] ISBN 1847011721
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
