Research Catalog

Title

African theatre. festivals / volume editor, James Gibbs ; reviews editor, Martin Banham.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Gibbs, James (James Morel)
• Banham, Martin

Description

xv, 156 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing arts to address a variety of topical issues and to confront images embedded by a century of patronising colonial expositions. The themes indicate the desire to take history by the forelock, challenge perceptions and transform communities. -- Back cover.

Series Statement

African theatre ; 11

Uniform Title

African theatre (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) 11.

Alternative Title

Festivals

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Theater > Africa
• Festivals > Africa
• African drama > History and criticism
• Politics and literature > Africa > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Festivals as a strategy for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-2010 / Robert Mshengu Kavanagh -- The legacy of Festac '77 : the challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu / Ahmed Yerima -- Festac, month by month & Soyinka's involvement / James Gibbs -- The Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010 / Yatma Dieye -- African Renaissance between rhetoric & the aesthetics of extravagance : FESMAN 2010-entrapped in textuality / Amy Niang -- Theatre Programme for FESMAN & commentary / James Gibbs -- The Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) in Ghana, 1922-2010 : the vision & the reality / Victor K. Yankah -- PANAFEST through the headlines: an annotated bibliography / James Gibbs -- International festivals & transnational theatre circuits in Egypt, 1988-2010 : ambassadors of no nation / Sonali Pahwa -- The Jos Theatre Festival, 2004-2011 : a theatre festival in a divided community / Patrick-Jude Oteh -- The Grahamstown Festival & the making of a dramatist : an interview with Andrew Buckland / James Gibbs -- Prison Graduates : [a play / by] Efo Kodjo Mawugbe ; with a review of a performance by James Gibbs -- Book reviews.

ISBN

• 9781847010575
• 1847010571

OCLC

• 823209845
• SCSB-12240500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library