Banham / Gibbs / Osofisan African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Wole Soyinka

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-386-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 144 Seiten

Reihe: African Theatre

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banham, Martin

Gibbs, James

Osofisan, Femi

Njogu, Kimani

Weitere Mitwirkende

Banham, Martin

Gibbs, James

Osofisan, Femi

Kerr, David

Jeyifo, Biodun

Adeyemi, Sola

Oyelana, Tunji

Onikoyi, Tunde

Adigun, Bisi

Namussasi, Silviah

Muhia, Mugo

Mbogo, Fredrick

Obyerodhyambo, Oby

Ndigirigi, Gichingiri

Katrak, Ketu H.

Soyinka, Wole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Introduction - Martin Banham and Femi Osofisan and James Gibbs
Reading & performing African drama: how Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o influenced my work - David Kerr
Ayan contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngugi as theatre theorists - Biodun Jeyifo
ENCOUNTERS WITH SOYINKA: I Working with Wole Soyinka - Tunji Oyelana and Sola Adeyemi
II The difficulties of a neophyte staging Wole Soyinka's The Beatification of Area Boy - Tunde Onikoyi
III Pentecostalizing Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero - Bisi Adigun
IV The Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa - Silviah Namussasi
ENCOUNTERS WITH NGUGI: I Choru wa Muiruri: reflections on the Kamiriithu Experience - Mugo Muhia
II Producing I Will Marry When I Want in South Africa - Fredrick Mbogo
III Ngugi wa Thiong'o: the unrecognized Black Hermit - Oby Obyerodhyambo
IV Kamiriithu in retrospect - Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Wole Soyinka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o: plays in production - James Gibbs and Mugo Muhia
The making of The Trial of Dedan Kimathiby Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo at the University of California, Irvine: a personal reflection - Ketu H. Katrak
Playscript: A Rain of Stones. A previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka
Book Reviews

Über Autor(innen)

Osofisan Femi:
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Osofisan Femi:
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.