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Contemporary African plays / edited and introduced by Martin Banham and Jane Plastow.

Title
Contemporary African plays / edited and introduced by Martin Banham and Jane Plastow.
Publication
London : Methuen, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Banham, Martin
  • Plastow, Jane
Description
xxix, 382 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
"Contemporary African Plays, edited with introductions by Martin Banham and Jane Plastow of Leeds University, is a collection of some of the most exciting plays from the past twenty-five years of African theatre, spanning the continent's rich and disparate regional and cultural traditions. Included in this collection are three of the most significant plays of this century plus three brilliant plays which will be new to Western audiences: Death and the King's Horseman, a masterpiece from the Nobel-prize-winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka; Woza Albert!, a skilful and devastating political satire from South Africa by the writers/performers Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema and Market Theatre director, the late Barney Simon; Anowa, a powerful tale from Ghana which tells of a woman's plight and oppression by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song, an ingenious radical drama from the popular Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan; The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco, a witty political allegory about post-colonial Zimbabwe, by Andrew Whaley; and The Other War, an extraordinary insight into Africa's longest liberation war, by the Eritrean playwright Alemseged Tesfai."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1970-1996
  • African drama > 20th century
  • Africa > Drama
Genre/Form
  • Drama
  • Plays – England – 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxix).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The chattering and the song / Femi Osofisan -- The rise and shine of Comrade Fiasco / Andrew Whaley -- Anowa / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Woza Albert! / Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon -- The other war / Alemseged Tesfai, translated by Paul Warwick, Samson Gebregzhier and Alemseged Tesfai -- Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka.
ISBN
0413723305
OCLC
  • 41547003
  • SCSB-12765340
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library