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African theatre : playwrights & politics / editors, Martin Banham, James Gibbs & Femi Osofisan ; reviews editor, Jane Plastow.

Title
African theatre : playwrights & politics / editors, Martin Banham, James Gibbs & Femi Osofisan ; reviews editor, Jane Plastow.
Publication
Oxford : J. Currey ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Banham, Martin.
  • Gibbs, James
  • Osofisan, Femi
Description
xxi, 291 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Playwrights & politics
  • Playwrights and politics
Subject
  • African drama > History and criticism
  • Politics and literature > Africa > History > 20th century
  • Politics in literature
  • Theater > Africa > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Articles -- From a playwright's notebook/ KHALID AL MUBARAK MUSTAFA -- Bole Butake's strategies as a political playwright : 'I'm not going to say things in a blunt manner,simply because I want to be politically committed.' / ECKHARD BREITINGER -- Ife convocation plays as politics : an examination of some past productions / FOLUKE OGUNLEYE -- The plays of Femi Osofisan -- Politics of aesthetics / SAM UKALA -- Once Upon Four Robbers : continuing the intercultural debate / VICTOR UKAEGBU -- Once Upon Four Robbers : a review / AWO ASIEDU -- Two Ghanaian Playwrights : Joe de Graft & Mohammed Ben-Abdallah -- Joe de Graft & the Ghana cultural revival / OBI MADUAKOR -- Joe de Graft: theatrical prophet with strange honours : a response to a profile by Kofi Agovi / JAMES GIBBS -- Mohammed Ben-Abdallah at fifty / ANTHONY A. AIDOO & JAMES GIBBS -- Land of a Million Magicians / JAMES GIBBS -- Interview with Mohammed Ben-Abdallah / AWO ASIEDU -- Language & Politics -- Island Plays -- Interviews with Dev Virahsawmy & Michael Walling : staging Shakespeare across borders / JANE WILKINSON -- 'Translating' The Tempest : Dev Virahsawmy's Toufann, cultural creolization & the rise of Mauritian creole / SHAWKAT M. TOORAWA -- Aimé Cesaire's Une tempete : a British premiere at the Gate Theatre / PHILIP CRISIN -- Ubu in Réunion : the Rise & fall of the Théâtre Vollard / PETER HAWKINS -- Puppets & Politics : Horse & Bamboo Productions with linking comments by MARTIN BANHAM -- Harvest of Ghosts : the story of a collaboration / SAM UKALA with LOZ KAYE, VICTORIA LEE & 'FUNMI ADEWOLE -- Follow up : theatre in Development -- Making Sense Project : promoting entrepreneurship by theatre & radio in Southern Africa / NICHOLAS MUKARONDA -- Noticeboard / JAMES GIBBS -- Playscript : Toufann / DEV VIRAHSAWMY in an English version by NISHA & MICHAEL WALLING -- Theatre Reviews -- Book Reviews -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0253339596 (alk. paper)
  • 0253214580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001024502