AFRICAN THEATRE 16: SIX PLAYS FROM EAST & WEST AFRICA by Jane Plastow (Editor), Martin Banham (Editor) ( 9781847011725 )

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Title:

AFRICAN THEATRE 16: SIX PLAYS FROM EAST & WEST AFRICA

By:

Jane Plastow (Editor), Martin Banham (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1847011721

ISBN 13:

9781847011725

Publisher:

JAMES CURREY

Pub. date:

17 November, 2017

Series:

African Theatre v. 16

Pages:

320

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

This volume makes available some of the most influential, imaginative and exciting plays to come out of East and West Africa from the 1970s to the present day. Deliberately excluding playscripts by the regions' two best known playwrights, Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose work was profiled in African Theatre 13 the editors have selected plays, some well-known and some less widely available, that represent the diversity and richness of these two very different African regions. The playscripts include a new translation from Amharic, as well as the English version of a play originally written in French, making more theatre from some of Africa's multitude of languages accessible to an English-reading audience. Each script is accompanied by an essay from an expert on the work, the playwright, and the context in which the play was produced, so that the volume will be of maximum use to both researchers and students of African theatre. Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM & JANE PLASTOW 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, University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick

Illustrations:

10 Illustrations, black and white

Publication:

Imprint:

James Currey

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Returnable

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