African Theatre 16: Six Plays from East & West Africa

A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners.

List of contents

Preface - Jane Plastow and Martin Banham
THREE PLAYS FROM EAST AFRICA
The Translation & Transcription of Mother Uganda & Her Children [Patience Nitumwesiga & team]
The Context & Making of Rose Mbowa's Mother Uganda & Her Children - Patrick Mangeni and Jane Plastow
Majangwa: A Promise of Rains (1974) by Robert Serumaga
Notions of Indigeneity: Uganda's Robert Serumaga - Don Rubin
The Guest (2016) by Manyazewal Endeshaw
An Absurdist in Addis Ababa: Manyazewal Endeshaw's Engida - Jane Plastow and Zerihun Birehanu
THREE PLAYS FROM WEST AFRICA
If: A Tragedy of the Ruled (1983) by Ola Rotimi
Ola Rotimi: Creating Theatrical Spaces - Martin Banham
Morountodun (1983) by Femi Osofisan
Morountodun: A Retrospective Commentary - Biodun Jeyifo
The Legend of Wagadu as Seen by Sia Yatabere (1988) by Moussa Diagana
Moussa Diagana & The Legend of Wagadu as Seen by Sia Yatabere: Advocating Anarchy in Mauritania? - Jane Plastow
Book Reviews

Summary

A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Banham, Biodun Jeyifo, Patrick Mangeni, Jane Plastow, Don Rubin
• Assisted by: Martin Banham (Editor), Jane Plastow (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781847011725
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-172-5
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: African Theatre; African Theatre
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies