African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Banham, Martin; Osofisan, Femi; Gibbs, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa's most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and collaborators who have worked with the playwrights, and also provides a digest of their theatrical output. Contributors provide new readings of Ngugi and Soyinka's classic texts, and astimulating new approach for students of English, Theatre and African studies. The playscript for this volume is a previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka entitled A Rain of Stones, first broadcast onBBC Radio 4 in 2002. Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM & FEMI OSOFISAN Guest Editor: KIMANI NJOGU 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782043867
• Artikelnr.: 56163300

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction - Martin Banham and Femi Osofisan and James Gibbs
Reading & performing African drama: how Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o
influenced my work - David Kerr Ayan contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngugi as
theatre theorists - Biodun Jeyifo ENCOUNTERS WITH SOYINKA: I Working with
Wole Soyinka - Tunji Oyelana and Sola Adeyemi II The difficulties of a
neophyte staging Wole Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy - Tunde
Onikoyi III Pentecostalizing Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero - Bisi
Adigun IV The Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa - Silviah Namussasi ENCOUNTERS
WITH NGUGI: I Choru wa Muiruri: reflections on the Kamiriithu Experience -
Mugo Muhia II Producing I Will Marry When I Want in South Africa - Fredrick
Mbogo III Ngugi wa Thiong'o: the unrecognized Black Hermit - Oby
Obyerodhyambo IV Kamiriithu in retrospect - Gichingiri Ndigirigi Wole
Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o: plays in production - James Gibbs and Mugo
Muhia The making of The Trial of Dedan Kimathiby Ngugi wa Thiong'o and
Micere Githae Mugo at the University of California, Irvine: a personal
reflection - Ketu H. Katrak Playscript: A Rain of Stones. A previously
unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka Book Reviews