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.