The Generation of Plays - Yoruba Popular Life in Theater

In "The Generation of Plays, Karin Barber recounts the history of the Odin Adejbi Theater Company and uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yoreba popular drama is brought to the stage. This rich and detailed book opens a window into the social and cultural worlds of actors and audiences.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

A Note on Orthography

1. Introduction

2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public

3. The Actors

4. Getting a Show on the Road

5. The Generation of Plays

6. The Filling Out a Play

7. Audiences

8. Television, Film, and Video

9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics

10. Literacy, "Enlightenment," and "Tradition"

11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making

12. Language and the Moral Public

13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example

Appendix 1: Synopses

Appendix 2: Yorùbá Text of a Sene from Taking Care of Kúnlé

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Karin Barber

Summary

From the 1940s to the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre was one of the most spectacularly successful theatres in Africa. This title recounts the history of the Odin Adejo Theatre Company. It uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yoruba popular dram is brought to the stage.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Barber, Karin Barber, Barber Karin
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780253216175
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21617-5
• No. of pages: 502
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 720 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)