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Six plays from East & West Africa
- Title
- Six plays from East & West Africa / volume editors Jane Plastow & Martin Banham ; reviews editor Martin Banham.
- Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB : James Currey, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer ; Rochester, NY, US : Boyell & Brewer, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xiv, 321 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners.
- Series Statement
- African Theatre ; 16
- Uniform Title
- African theatre (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; 16.
- Alternative Title
- 6 plays from East & West Africa
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- African drama (English)
- African drama – Black authors – 20th century.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Chiefly in English but some text in an unidentified Ugandan language.
- Contents
- THREE PLAYS FROM EAST AFRICA: 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 and Jane Plastow -- Majangwa : A Promise of Rains / Robert Serumaga -- Notions of Indigeneity: Uganda's Robert Serumaga / Don Rubin -- The Guest (Enigida) : a one act play / Manyazewal Endeshaw -- An Absurdist in Addis Ababa : Manyazewal Endeshaw's Engida / Zerihun Birehanu and Jane Plastow -- THREE PLAYS FROM WEST AFRICA: 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 19-85
- ISBN
- 1847011721
- 9781847011725
- OCLC
- 1019605374
- Title
- Six plays from East & West Africa / volume editors Jane Plastow & Martin Banham ; reviews editor Martin Banham.
- Publisher
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB : James Currey, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer ; Rochester, NY, US : Boyell & Brewer, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African Theatre ; 16African theatre (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) ; 16.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Chiefly in English but some text in an unidentified Ugandan language.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Plastow, Jane, editor.Banham, Martin, editor.Container of (expression): Mbowa, Rose. Mother Uganda & her children. English.Container of (expression): Serumaga, Robert, 1939-1980. Majangawa: a promise of rains. English.Container of (expression): Endeshaw, Manyazewal. Guest (engida). English.Container of (expression): Rotimi, Ola. If: a tragedy of the ruled. English.Container of (expression): Osofisan, Femi. Moroutodun. English.Container of (expression): Diagana, Moussa, 1946- Legend of Wagadu as seen by Sia Yatabere. English.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 19-85