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African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka (Paperback)
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African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka (Paperback)
Series: African Theatre
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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The playscript for this volume is a previously unpublished radio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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