African Theatre 2: Playwrights and Politics

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320 Pages

21.6 x 13.8 cm

6 b/w illus.

Series: African Theatre

Imprint: James Currey

African Theatre 2: Playwrights and Politics

Edited by Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan

by James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan

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Includes the playscript of Toufann by Dev Virahsawmy, an English version of his Mauritian Creole interpretation of The Tempest.

African playwrights remain aware of the political dimension of their work. This volume in the African Theatre series examines, for example, a theatrical collaboration inspired by the infamous execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and raisesissues around the power and politics of language in a Mauritian version of The Tempest.
Series editors: Martin Banham, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan
North America: Indiana U Press; South Africa: Wits U Press

Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

"African Theatre is a series that seeks to fill a void, fusing on often overlooked but vigorous developments and ongoing scholarship and performance in this big field. ...Neophytes to contemporary African theatre will come away from this book with a sound basis for further investigation. -" Femi Euba, Louisiana State University
"...the real value of this volume is that it provides a text in English of Toufann...Dev Virahsawmy's gem of a play and the editors must be congratulated for affording the reader this pleasure. -" Alan Shelley, JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES
"The medicine of theatre in Sudan, Cameroon, Mauritius, Ghana and Nigeria, though delivered in tiny homeopathic doses to vast bodies politic, may be life- or spirit-saving... Old themes come in guises so new you feel like a first-time visitor to a weirdly familiar but mad planet. Playwrights condense, whether writing plays or articles, and this book offers many readable potted histories - an analytic, provocative intellectual's guide to some aspects of current Africa. -" Rob Amato, MAIL & GUARDIAN

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9780852555989

April 2001

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Title Details

320 Pages

2.16 x 1.38 cm

6 b/w illus.

Series: African Theatre

Imprint: James Currey

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