African Theatre In Development

Author : Martin Banham,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan,Jane Plastow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 025333599X

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African Theatre in Development by Martin Banham,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan,Jane Plastow Pdf

"A truly worthwhile resource in a growing field of research--the theater and drama of Africa--this volume collects ten essays about theater practice, publications, and productions; in-depth reviews of 17 books; and a new play." --Choice "... a 'must-have' for anybody interested in issues relating to theatre and development in Africa.... a pioneering effort... " --H-Net Reviews Art as a tool, weapon, or shield? This compelling issue and others are explored in this diverse collection of intriguing perspectives on African theatre in development. Also here: strategies in staging, propaganda, and mass education, and a discussion of the playwright Alemseged Tesfai's career in service to Eritrean liberation.

Author : Kamal Salhi
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040364856

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African Theatre for Development by Kamal Salhi Pdf

This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts, critics and artists from across the world. The contributions are in a language and style that allow them to be read either as aids to formal study or as elements of discussion to interest the general reader.

Author : Michael Etherton
Publisher : Hutchinson
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003825192

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The Development of African Drama by Michael Etherton Pdf

Author : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African drama
ISBN : 0253215390

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African Theatre by Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan Pdf

The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.

Author : Kene Igweonu
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401200820

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Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance by Kene Igweonu Pdf

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.

Author : Anne-Kathrin Wilde
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 9783640542017

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The Development of Theatre in Uganda by Anne-Kathrin Wilde Pdf

"Refering to Uganda's long history, theatre also has a long past. The country has experienced a various number of influences by the missionaries, colonialists, Milton Obote's destruction of the Buganda Kingdom and reign of terror and Idi Amin's economic war strategy. It is difficult to define truly African theatre. Theatre always stood under observation from outside. In this way how could it be possible to develop an own Ugandan theatre form? Even before those influences Uganda already has its own cultural tradition and when alien powers came to the country, life and art still developed but under certain circumstances. In this essay I would like to try to explain the difficulties of defining African especially Ugandan theatre. After that I would like to elaborate on how all those influences contribute to an own theatre form in Uganda if that's really the case"--Page 2

Author : David Kerr,Jane Plastow
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781847010384

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African Theatre by David Kerr,Jane Plastow Pdf

Examines the impact of new media (such as video and YouTube) and the use of multi-media on live and recorded performance in Africa. Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to various kinds of media. Includes contributions on dance; popular video, with an emphasis on video drama and soaps from Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Nigerian 'Nollywood' phenomenon; the interface between live performance and video (or still photography), and links between on-line social networks and new performance identities. As a group the articles raise, from original angles, the issues of racism, gender, identity, advocacy and sponsorship. Volume Editor: DAVID KERR is Professor of English in the University of Botswana, and is the author of African Popular Theatre Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139451499

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A History of Theatre in Africa by Martin Banham Pdf

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.

Author : Ousmane Diakhate,Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Don Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136359491

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Ousmane Diakhate,Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Don Rubin Pdf

Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.

Author : Kamal Salhi
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781841508689

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African Theatre for Development by Kamal Salhi Pdf

African Theatre for Development acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The collection: • reveals the dynamic position of the arts and culture in post-independent countries as well as changes in influences and audiences, • shows African theatre to be about aesthetics and rituals, the sociological and the political, the anthropological and the historical, • examines theatre's role as a performing art throughout the continent, representing ethnic identities and defining intercultural relationships, • investigates African theatre's capacity to combine contemporary cultural issues into the whole artistic fabric of performing arts, and • considers the variety of voices, forms and practices through which contemporary African intellectual circles are negotiating the forces of tradition and modernity. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts, critics and artists from across the world. The contributions are in a language and style that allow them to be read either as aids to formal study or as elements of discussion to interest the general reader.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030472726

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A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1 by Jane Plastow Pdf

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.

Author : David Kerr
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106013529885

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African Popular Theatre by David Kerr Pdf

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.

Author : Geoffrey V. Davis,Anne Fuchs
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 3718656515

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Theatre and Change in South Africa by Geoffrey V. Davis,Anne Fuchs Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0253214580

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African Theatre by Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan Pdf

This second annual volume in the African Theatre series focuses on the intersection of politics and theatre in Africa today. Topics include the remarkable collaboration between Horse and Bamboo, a puppet theatre company based in the United Kingdom, and Nigerian playwright Sam Ukala that was inspired by the infamous execution of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists; the plays of Femi Osofisan; and plays by Ghanaian playwrights Joe de Graft and Mohammed Ben-Abdallah. African Theatre features the work of Mauritian playwright Dev Virahsawmy and includes an interview with him, reviews of an English production of his play, Toufann, as well as the translated playscript. Reports of workshops and conferences, reviews, and news of the year in African theatre make this volume a valuable resource for anyone interested in current issues in African drama and performance.

Author : Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443859219

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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2 by Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue Pdf

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 2: Innovation, Creativity and Social Change contains essays that address performativity as a process, particularly in the context of theatre’s engagement with contemporary realities with the hope of instigating social change. The innovativeness of the examples explored within the book points to the ingenuity and adaptive capacity of African theatre in ways that engage indigenous forms in the service of contemporary realities. Contributions in Innovation, Creativity and Social Change explore forms such as Theatre for Development, community and applied theatre, and indigenous juridical performances, as well as the work of contemporary dramatists and performers who set out to instigate change in society.