Theatre And Performance In East Africa

Author : Osita Okagbue,Samuel Kasule
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351996167

Get Book

Theatre and Performance in East Africa by Osita Okagbue,Samuel Kasule Pdf

Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities and critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre. The book develops new paradigms for thinking about African performance in general through the construction of a critical framework that addresses questions concerning performance particularities and coherences, challenging previous understandings. To this end, it establishes a common critical and theoretical framework for indigenous performance using case studies from East Africa that are also reflected elsewhere in the continent. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance, especially those with an interest in the close relationship between theatre and performance with culture.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030877316

Get Book

A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2 by Jane Plastow Pdf

This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre in Djibouti. The chapter is particularly concerned to explore how French and Belgian cultural policies impacted theatre during the colonial period and how the French ideas of Francafrique and promotion of elite, French language art have continued to resonate in the post-colonial present. Chapters Two and Three look comparatively at the rich theatre histories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and are divided between a study of British East African colonial impact and an analysis of the post-colonial period illustrating how divergent political thought and societal make-up led to exponential differentiation in national theatres. The final chapter, on Theatre for Development and related social action theatre, covers the whole East African region, offering the first ever historicised analysis of this mode of theatre making which, since the 1980s, has come to dominate funding and opportunity in performance arts.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030472726

Get Book

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 : Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781912234585

Get Book

Resistance and Politics in Contemporary East African Theatre by Osita Okagbue Pdf

Contemporary Uganda and other East African states are connected by the experience of Idi Amin's tyranny, rapacious and murderous regime, and the latter second Uganda Peoples Congress government, that forced Ugandans to go into exile and initiate armed struggles from Kenya and Tanzania to oust his government. Because of these experiences of disappearances, torture, murder and war, issues of identity, politics and resistance are significant concerns for East African dramatists. Resistance and Politics in Contemporary East African Theatre demonstrates the significant role of theatre in resisting tyranny and forging a post-colonial national identity. In its engaging analysis of an important period of theatre, the book explores key moments while considering the specific practice of individual artists and groups that provoke differing experiences and performance practices. Selected examples range from early post-colonial plays reflecting the resistance to the rise of tyranny, torture and dictatorships, to more recent works that address situations involving struggles for social justice and the cult personality in political leaders. Resistance and Politics in Contemporary East African Theatre offers a new vision of Ugandan theatre as a performative space, a site where new aesthetics, forms, multiple voices, and identities emerge.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484733

Get Book

African Theatre and Politics: The evolution of theatre in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe by Jane Plastow Pdf

This study, the first book-length treatment of its subject, draws on a large base of elusive material and on extensive field research. It is the result of the author's wide experience of teaching and producing theatre in Africa, and of her fascination with the ways in which traditional performance forms have interacted with, or have resisted, non-indigenous modes of dramatic representation in the process of evolving into the vital theatres of the present day. A comparative historical study is offered of the three national cultures of Ethiopia, Tanganyika/Tanzania, and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Not only (scripted) drama is treated, but also theatre in the sense of the broader range of performance arts such as dance and song. The development of theatre and drama is seen against the background of centuries of cultural evolution and interaction, from pre-colonial times, through phases of African and European imperialism, to the liberation struggles and newly-won independence of the present. The seminal relationship between theatre, society and politics is thus a central focus. Topics covered include: the function in theatre of vernacular and colonial languages; performance forms under feudal, communalist and socialist régimes; cultural militancy and political critique; the relationship of theatre to social élites and to the peasant class; state control (funding and censorship); racism and separate development in the performing arts; contemporary performance structures (amateur, professional, community and university theatre). Due attention is paid to prominent dramatists, theatre groups and theatre directors, and the author offers new insight into African perceptions of the role of the artist in the theatre, as well as dealing with the important subject of gender roles (in drama, in performance ritual, and in theatre practice). The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1272875818

Get Book

A History of East African Theatre: Horn of Africa by Jane Plastow Pdf

Author : David Kerr,Jane Plastow
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781847010384

Get Book

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 : Charles Kebaya,John Mugubi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African drama
ISBN : 9966011765

Get Book

African Drama & Theatre by Charles Kebaya,John Mugubi Pdf

"The contributors to this text investigate the developments of African drama and theatre from the pre-colonial period to the present ... [in] a rich collection of essays that cover a wide range of topics such as the concept and nature of traditional African drama and theatre, African aesthetics in traditional African drama and theatre, re-appropriation of the African aesthetic in modern African drama, the growth and development of Kenyan drama and theatre, theatre for development in East Africa, and minimalism as a theatrical strategy in Athol Fugard's plays."--Back cover.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042000422

Get Book

African Theatre and Politics by Jane Plastow Pdf

Comparative historical study of the three national cultures of Ethiopia, Tanganyika/Tanzania, and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. The development of theatre is seen against the background of centuries of cultural evolution and interaction, from pre-colonial times, through phases of African and European imperialism, to the liberation struggles and newly-won independence.

Author : David Kerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCBK:C067755950

Get Book

Dance, Media-entertainment, and Popular Performance in South East Africa by David Kerr Pdf

Author : Susan Arndt,Eckhard Breitinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015074250419

Get Book

Theatre, Performance and New Media in Africa by Susan Arndt,Eckhard Breitinger Pdf

Author : Oyin Ogunba,Abiola Irele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : African drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038808619

Get Book

Theatre in Africa by Oyin Ogunba,Abiola Irele Pdf

Author : Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134407866

Get Book

African Theatres and Performances by Osita Okagbue Pdf

African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in Eastern Nigeria the trance and possession ritual theatre of the Hausa of Northern Nigeria the musical and oral tradition of the Mandinka of Senegal comedy and satire of the Bamana in Mali. Osita Okagbue describes each performance in detail and discusses how each is made, who it is made by and for, and considers the relationship between maker and viewer and the social functions of performance and theatre in African societies. The discussions are based on first-hand observation and interviews with performers and spectators. African Theatres & Performances gives a fascinating account of these practices, carefully tracing the ways in which performances and theatres are unique and expressive of their cultural context.

Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443891776

Get Book

Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance by Patrick J. Ebewo Pdf

In spite of the rich repertoire of artistic traditions in Southern Africa, particularly in the areas of drama, theatre and performance, there seems to be a lack of a corresponding robust academic engagement with these subjects. While it can be said that some of the racial groups in the region have received substantial attention in terms of scholarly discussions of their drama and theatre performances, the same cannot be said of the black African racial group. As such, this collection of thirteen chapters represents a compendium of critical and intellectual discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered in the book include, amongst others, ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, textual analyses, and the funeral rites (viewed as performance) of the South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela. The discussions are rooted mainly using African paradigms that are relevant to the context of African cultural production. The contributions here add to the aggregate knowledge economy of Southern Africa, promote research and publication, and provide reading materials for university students specialising in the performing arts. As such, the book will appeal to academics, theatre scholars, cultural workers and arts administrators, arts practitioners and entrepreneurs, the tourism industry, arts educators, and development communication experts.

Author : Kimani Njogu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789966028099

Get Book

Getting Heard: [Re]claiming Performance Space in Kenya by Kimani Njogu Pdf

Getting Heard: (Re)claiming Performance Space is the third in a series of publications on art, culture and society released by Twaweza Communications. The aim is to bring to the fore conversations taking place in Kenya about identity, creativity, nationalism and the generation of knowledge. The series is also about the pursuit of freedom through arts, media and culture. In Getting Heard the performance space is shown to offer wider possibilities for knowledge creation. It shows that in post-colonial Africa political leaders have consistently performed over their subjects at local and national levels. There is discussion of: Kenya National Theatre, Story Telling, Radio Theatre, Translation, African Languages, Music, Media and Mungiki This volume opens a window to our understanding of post-colonial Africa through performances.