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In Search Of African Theatre
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Author : Scott Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Release Date : 1973
In Search Of African Theatre written by Scott Kennedy and has been published by New York : Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Theater categories.
A History Of Theatre In Africa
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Author : Martin Banham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-13
A History Of Theatre In Africa written by Martin Banham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-13 with Drama categories.
This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Issues In African Theatre
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Author : Ola Rotimi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Issues In African Theatre written by Ola Rotimi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
A project of the Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, which was founded by the late Ola Rotimi, one of Africa's finest dramatists, author of over a dozen play, theatre director, and Professor of Dramatic Arts. This collection of papers is the result of the dramatist's final creative years, and includes contributions from Rotimi himself as well as others from his department both from the older and younger generations. The essays are entitled: Attainment of Discovery: Efua Sutherland and the Evolution of Modern African Drama; Development of the Theatre of Radical Poetics in Nigeria; 'Each One Tell One'; Language as Praxis in Ola Rotimi and Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Sowande's Revolutionary Socio- Aesthetic Ideal; The Hidden Pursuaders: Nigerian Tele-Drama and Propaganda; The Performer and the Nigerian Copyright Act; The African Operetta: An Overview of Adam Fibersima's 'Edi Ke Marina'; and In Search of Community Theatre Audience.
South African Drama And Theatre From Pre Colonial Times To The 1990s An Alternative Reading
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Author : Mzo Sirayi
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012
South African Drama And Theatre From Pre Colonial Times To The 1990s An Alternative Reading written by Mzo Sirayi and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Drama categories.
Mzo Sirayi has embarked on a highly impressive and daring enterprise with the unfl inching boldness of a scholar who is driven by a passionate pursuit to set the record straight. He manages to pull no punches and make no apologies by being true to his convictions, especially within the context of a new South Africa. The book adopts a largely historicized, critical and analytical perspective, which strikingly approximates that of postcolonial theory. — Owen Seda This new and authoritative book is an excellent addition to the few existing books on black South African drama and theatre. South African Drama and Th eatre from Pre-colonial Times to 1990s: An Alternative Reading takes the reader on a tour of the indigenous as well as the modern South African theatre zones. The chapters reverberate with echoes of Africanisation and rock on renaissance waves. This exciting and stimulating book is transparently readable, accessible and is of inestimable value to academics and general readers. — Patrick Ebewo
The Performance Arts In Africa
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Author : Frances Harding
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
The Performance Arts In Africa written by Frances Harding and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Drama categories.
The Performance Arts in Africa is the first anthology of key writings on African performance from many parts of the continent. As well as play texts, off the cuff comedy routines and masquerades, this exciting collection encompasses community-based drama, tourist presentations, television soap operas, puppet theatre, dance, song, and ceremonial ritualised performances. Themes discussed are: * theory * performers and performing * voice, language and words * spectators, space and time. The book also includes an introduction which examines some of the crucial debates, past and present, surrounding African performance. The Performance Arts of Africa is an essential introduction for those new to the field and is an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with African performance.
Performative Inter Actions In African Theatre 3
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Author : Kene Igweonu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Performative Inter Actions In African Theatre 3 written by Kene Igweonu and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Performing Arts categories.
This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content, and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributors’ backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the “one-sided” advance of globalisation. The contributions attest to the thriving nature of African theatre and performance, which in the face of these challenges, has managed to retain its distinctiveness, while at the same time acknowledging, contesting, and appropriating influences from elsewhere into an aesthetic that is identifiably African. Consequently, the three books are presented as a comprehensive exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance, both on the continent and diaspora. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa offers essays that seek to re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre in Africa, and therefore redefine our understanding of the practice, role, and place they occupy in a constantly evolving African socio-cultural contexts. Contributions in Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa range from essays that explore notions of space in performance, to those that challenge the perceived orthodoxy of conventional forms and approaches to theatre.
A History Of East African Theatre Volume 1
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Author : Jane Plastow
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-12-01
A History Of East African Theatre Volume 1 written by Jane Plastow and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of the Horn of Africa. The book shows how the theatres of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, little known in the outside world, have been among the continent's most politically important, commercially successful, and widely popular; making work almost exclusively in local languages and utilizing hybrid forms that have privileged local cultural modes of production. A History of African Theatre is relevant to all who have interests in African cultures and their relationship to the history and politics of the East African region.
Trends In Twenty First Century African Theatre And Performance
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Author : Kene Igweonu
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
Trends In Twenty First Century African Theatre And Performance written by Kene Igweonu and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.
Ola Rotimi S African Theatre
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Author : Niyi Coker
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2005
Ola Rotimi S African Theatre written by Niyi Coker and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Drama categories.
This work is an exploration into the writing, cultural and theatrical aesthetics of African writer and director, Ola Rotimi. It is a quest and search for an authentic African esthetic that has been transformed by at least two centuries of the European colonization. This work focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of the Ori Olokun theatre under the artistic direction of Ola Rotimi. It reviews Ola Rotimi's vision and impact with the Ori Olokun Company, and his quest to formulate a truly authentic African theatre, void of the imported European sensibility and colonially inherited aesthetic. The unique creative achievement of Rotimi's work at the Ori Olokun theatre, is that it evolved out of the ivory towers of the University, an 'unfriendly' territory as far as the indigenous theatre is concerned. Ola Rotimi dedicated his art to exploring the traditional/indigenous artistic expressions of the Nigeria people at a point when the African aesthetic had completely lost ground to the European value system. Three of Rotimi's historical plays are analyzed to understand and locate his historical perspective. African theatre, an issue that has dominated African theatre for the past half century. His solution is that writers must 'tamper with the English language to temper it's Englishness'. Clearly, what makes Rotimi unique, is that he brings to his plays, the linguistic characteristics and nuances that are authentic to African people.
African Popular Theatre
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Author : David Kerr
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1995
African Popular Theatre written by David Kerr and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Collections categories.
African popular theater includes conventional drama plus such nonliterary performance as dance, mime, storytelling, masquerades, vaudeville, improvization, & the theater of social action & resistance. Media such as radio, film, & television are included.