Theatre and Performance in Africa: Intercultural Perspectives
Bayreuth: Breitinger, 2nd revised and enlarged ed. (2003), 224 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Bayreuth African Studies, 31
ISBN 3-927510-73-4
"Most of the essays [...] resulted from the papers and presentations given at the conference, 'Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression', held at Bayreuth University in 1992." (Page 7)
I. MULTICULTURAL IDIOMS
Theatre for Development or Live and Let Live / Alby James, 17
Designing A Multi-Ethnic Theatrical Idiom: Rose Mbowa's Mother Uganda and Her Children / Eckhard Breitinger, 25
Identity and Social Contexts of Cultural Transfer in Black Drama / Olu Obafemi, 33
Patterns of Communication: Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, Royal Exchange Theatre Production Manchester, 1990 / Martin Rohmer, 47
Masquerade Elements on the Stage Today / Anna A. Hlavacova, 65
II. MOBILIZING THE GRASSROOTS OR CHANGING THE ELITES
Perspectives in Popular Theatre: Orality as a Definition of New Realities / Oga S. Abah, 79
The Dramatist at Work: My Theatre Work Is Aimed at the Urbano-Politico Bureaucratic Elite in Cameroon / Bole Butake, 101
Another Theatre of the Absurd / Zakes Mda, 105
Theatre at Nigerian Universities: Development, Aporias and Possibilities / Adama Ulrich, 113
III. THEATRE IN THE POLITICAL ARENA
Artists Under Siege: Theatre and the Dictatorial Regimes in Uganda / Rose Mbowa, 123
"...satirizing those aspects of our life we don't approve of": A View of the 'Dark Comedies' from the Townships / Eckhard Breitinger, 135
Junction Avenue Theatre Company's Tooth & Nail - The State of 'Interregnum' and New Theatre Forms in South Africa / Gabriele Grosse Perdekamp, 159
Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy: Street Sociology & Political Satire / Eckhard Breitinger, 165
IV. NEW MEDIA AND NEW FORMS OF PERFORMANCE
Song, Story and Nation: Women as Singers and Actresses in Zimbabwe / Moreblessing Chitauro, Caleb Dube, Liz Gunner, 177
The Quest for a New Literary Idiom in Nigeria's TV Plays / S. E. Osazuwa, 205
Children's Theatre in Cameroon: Some Experiences / Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh, 215
Theatre for Development or Live and Let Live / Alby James, 17
Designing A Multi-Ethnic Theatrical Idiom: Rose Mbowa's Mother Uganda and Her Children / Eckhard Breitinger, 25
Identity and Social Contexts of Cultural Transfer in Black Drama / Olu Obafemi, 33
Patterns of Communication: Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, Royal Exchange Theatre Production Manchester, 1990 / Martin Rohmer, 47
Masquerade Elements on the Stage Today / Anna A. Hlavacova, 65
II. MOBILIZING THE GRASSROOTS OR CHANGING THE ELITES
Perspectives in Popular Theatre: Orality as a Definition of New Realities / Oga S. Abah, 79
The Dramatist at Work: My Theatre Work Is Aimed at the Urbano-Politico Bureaucratic Elite in Cameroon / Bole Butake, 101
Another Theatre of the Absurd / Zakes Mda, 105
Theatre at Nigerian Universities: Development, Aporias and Possibilities / Adama Ulrich, 113
III. THEATRE IN THE POLITICAL ARENA
Artists Under Siege: Theatre and the Dictatorial Regimes in Uganda / Rose Mbowa, 123
"...satirizing those aspects of our life we don't approve of": A View of the 'Dark Comedies' from the Townships / Eckhard Breitinger, 135
Junction Avenue Theatre Company's Tooth & Nail - The State of 'Interregnum' and New Theatre Forms in South Africa / Gabriele Grosse Perdekamp, 159
Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy: Street Sociology & Political Satire / Eckhard Breitinger, 165
IV. NEW MEDIA AND NEW FORMS OF PERFORMANCE
Song, Story and Nation: Women as Singers and Actresses in Zimbabwe / Moreblessing Chitauro, Caleb Dube, Liz Gunner, 177
The Quest for a New Literary Idiom in Nigeria's TV Plays / S. E. Osazuwa, 205
Children's Theatre in Cameroon: Some Experiences / Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh, 215
