West African Plays
Title | West African Plays PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | African drama (English) |
ISBN |
Six Plays from East & West Africa
Title | Six Plays from East & West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Plastow |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | African drama |
ISBN | 9781847011725 |
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.
West African Popular Theatre
Title | West African Popular Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Barber |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 1997-06-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253028078 |
" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.
Contemporary African Plays
Title | Contemporary African Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Plastow |
Publisher | Methuen Drama |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femo Osofisan; The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whalley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, et al; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.
West African Plays
Title | West African Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Sonny Oti |
Publisher | |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 1979* |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN | 9780195752830 |
African Theatre Today
Title | African Theatre Today PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Banham |
Publisher | London : Pitman |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Soyinka
Title | Soyinka PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |