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Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous
performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities and
critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre.
The book develops new paradigms for thinking about African
performance in general through the construction of a critical
framework that addresses questions concerning performance
particularities and coherences, challenging previous
understandings. To this end, it establishes a common critical and
theoretical framework for indigenous performance using case studies
from East Africa that are also reflected elsewhere in the
continent. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of theatre and performance, especially those with an
interest in the close relationship between theatre and performance
with culture.
Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous
performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities and
critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre.
The book develops new paradigms for thinking about African
performance in general through the construction of a critical
framework that addresses questions concerning performance
particularities and coherences, challenging previous
understandings. To this end, it establishes a common critical and
theoretical framework for indigenous performance using case studies
from East Africa that are also reflected elsewhere in the
continent. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of theatre and performance, especially those with an
interest in the close relationship between theatre and performance
with culture.
African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific
performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency
to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate
theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in
Eastern Nigeria the trance and possession ritual theatre of the
Hausa of Northern Nigeria the musical and oral tradition of the
Mandinka of Senegal comedy and satire of the Bamana in Mali. Osita
Okagbue describes each performance in detail and discusses how each
is made, who it is made by and for, and considers the relationship
between maker and viewer and the social functions of performance
and theatre in African societies. The discussions are based on
first-hand observation and interviews with performers and
spectators. African Theatres & Performances gives a fascinating
account of these practices, carefully tracing the ways in which
performances and theatres are unique and expressive of their
cultural context.
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African Theatre 8: Diasporas (Paperback)
Martin Banham, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan; Edited by (ghost editors) Osita Okagbue, Christine Matzke; Contributions by …
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This volume in the African Theatre series celebrates the African
theatrical diaspora from Brazil to Tasmania, and Canada to Cuba,
and also includes the playscript Messing with the Mind by Egyptian
writer and director Khaled El-Sawy. Diasporas', as used in the
title of this volume, refers to a multitude of groups and
communities with widely differing histories, identities and current
locations. This book brings together essays on theatre by people of
Africandescent in North America, Cuba, Italy, the UK, Israel and
Tasmania. Several chapters present overviews of particular national
contexts, others offer insights into play texts or specific
performances. Offering a mix of academic andpractitioner's points
of views, Volume 8 in the African Theatre series analyses and
celebrates various aspects of African diasporic theatre worldwide.
Guest Editors: CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures
and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin; and OSITA OKAGBUE,
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University
of London. 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
The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book
investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in
the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies
that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism
while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated
contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the
Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South
Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of
racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting
understandings of race in public discourse.
The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book
investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in
the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies
that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism
while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated
contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the
Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South
Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of
racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting
understandings of race in public discourse.
African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific
performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency
to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate
theatrical performance. The book examines: masquerade theatre in
Eastern Nigeria the trance and possession ritual theatre of the
Hausa of Northern Nigeria the musical and oral tradition of the
Mandinka of Senegal comedy and satire of the Bamana in Mali. Osita
Okagbue describes each performance in detail and discusses how each
is made, who it is made by and for, and considers the relationship
between maker and viewer and the social functions of performance
and theatre in African societies. The discussions are based on
first-hand observation and interviews with performers and
spectators. African Theatres & Performances gives a fascinating
account of these practices, carefully tracing the ways in which
performances and theatres are unique and expressive of their
cultural context.
Because of a shared experience of European colonialism and
trans-Atlantic slavery, issues of culture and identity are major
concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and
colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration,
de-humanization and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the
collective psyches of the colonized Africans and enslaved peoples
of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought
intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in
various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African
descent around the world. African and Caribbean playwrights try to
help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their
cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the
similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the
theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures
are negotiated and affirmed in each case.
_______________________________________ Osita Okagbue studied
English/Dramatic Arts at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Arts
Administration and Theatre Management at the University of Ibadan,
Nigeria, and holds a Ph.D. in African and Caribbean Theatre from
the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He has taught at the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, University of Plymouth, United
Kingdom, and since 2002 at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dr
Okagbue has published extensively on African and Caribbean drama
and theatre in journals such as Maske und Kothurn, New Literatures
Review, ASSAPH: Studies in Theatre and Theatre Research
International. He has also contributed chapters in many books. His
most recent book is African Theatres and Performance (Routledge,
2007).
In keeping with the aims of the African Theatre Association (AfTA)
and the editorial board, the essays offered in this volume of
African Performance Review have been selected to reflect the
vibrant diversity which characterises African theatre and
performance. The essays deal with a broad range of African theatre
and performance forms and practices.
African Performance Review is a triennial, peer-reviewed journal of
the African Theatre Association. For sales/subscription inquiry,
please contact: [email protected]. To contribute to the
journal or for other editorial issues, please contact the journal's
editor(Dr Osita Okagbue) African Performance Review, Department of
Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London, Email: [email protected].
Articles in this issue are: Written Over, Written Out: The Gendered
Misrepresentation of Women in Modern African Performance; Agony,
Antigone and the Dialectics of Resistance in African Performance;
Resistant Voices in African Popular Performance; To Outwit or not
to Outwit Censorship in Malawi: University Theatre and Banda's
Policies in the 1970s; Technologies of Faith Performance:
Theatre/Performance and Pentecostalism in Africa
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