Theatre In Africa

Author : Karin Barber,John Collins,Alain Ricard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253028075

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West African Popular Theatre by Karin Barber,John Collins,Alain Ricard Pdf

" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Christine Matzke,Lena van der Hoven,Christopher Odhiambo,Hilde Roos
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847012579

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African Theatre by Christine Matzke,Lena van der Hoven,Christopher Odhiambo,Hilde Roos Pdf

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 303047271X

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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 : Osita Okagbue,Samuel Kasule
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351996167

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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 : Don Rubin,Carlos Solorzano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136359286

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Don Rubin,Carlos Solorzano Pdf

This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This Encyclopedia is indispensable for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre. It is also an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines including history, performance studies, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134407866

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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 : Jane Plastow
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484733

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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 : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052143453X

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Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa by John Conteh-Morgan Pdf

This is the first study to be entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theater. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of precolonial, but sometimes still contemporary, traditions of performance that constitute part of its roots, the author examines this drama in both its literary and theatrical dimensions. He discusses its development, themes and techniques up to and including contemporary theater. The book is divided into two sections: Part One offers a theoretical and historical background; Part Two analyzes key individual plays central to the repertoire, including two from the Caribbean. All quotations are translated into English.

Author : David Kerr
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Martin Banham,Errol Hill,George Woodyard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521411394

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The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre by Martin Banham,Errol Hill,George Woodyard Pdf

Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.

Author : Oyin Ogunba,Abiola Irele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : African drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038808619

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Theatre in Africa by Oyin Ogunba,Abiola Irele Pdf

Author : Dele Layiwola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134429264

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African Theatre in Performance by Dele Layiwola Pdf

In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theatre - both traditional and contemporary. Dele Layiwola, Dapo Adelugba and Sonny Oti trace the beginnings of the School of Drama in 1960, at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where Martin Banham played a key and influential role in the growth of thriving Nigerian theatre repetoire and simulaneously encouraging the creation of a new theatre based on traditional Nigerian theatre forms. This comparative approach is taken up in Dele Layiwola's study of ritual and drama in the context of various traditions worldwide, while Oyin Ogunba presents a lucid picture of the complex use of theatre space in Yoruba ritual dramadar drama. Harsh everyday realitites, both physical and political, are graphically demonstrated by Robert McClaren (Zimbabwe) and Oga Steve Abah (Nigeria) who both show surprising and alarming links between extreme actual experiences and theatre creation and performance. The texts of the two plays - When Criminals Turn Judges by Ola Rotimi, The Hand that Feeds the King by Wale Ogunyemi, are followed by Austin O. Asagba's study of oral tradition and text in plays by Osofisan and Agbeyegbe, and Frances Harding's study on power, language, and imagery in Wole Soyinka's plays.

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : African drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4422057

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Theatre and Society in Africa by Mineke Schipper Pdf