Banham / Gibbs / Osofisan African Theatre 11: Festivals

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78204-047-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 11, 172 Seiten

Reihe: African Theatre

Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banham, Martin

Gibbs, James

Osofisan, Femi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yerima, Ahmed

Niang, Amy

Buckland, Andrew

Gibbs, James

Oteh, Patrick-Jude

Kavanagh, Robert Mshengu

Pahwa, Sonali

Yankah, Victor K.

Dieye, Yatma

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's Introduction - James Gibbs
Festivals as a strategy for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-201 - Robert Mshengu Kavanagh
The legacy of Festac '77: the challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu - Ahmed Yerima
Festac, month by month and Soyinka's involvement - James Gibbs
The Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010 - Yatma Dieye
African Renaissance between rhetoric & the aesthetics of extravagance: FESMAN 2010 - entrapped in textuality - Amy Niang
Theatre Programme for FESMAN, with Commentary - James Gibbs
The Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (Panafest) in Ghana, 1922-2010: the vision & the reality - Victor K. Yankah
Panafest through the Headlines: an Annotated Bibliography - James Gibbs
International festivals & transnational theatre circuits in Egypt, 1988-2010: ambassadors of no nation - Sonali Pahwa
The Jos Theatre Festival, 2004- 2011:a theatre festival in a divided community - Patrick-Jude Oteh
The Grahamstown Festival & the making of a dramatist: an interview with Andrew Buckland - Andrew Buckland
Playscript: Prison Graduates by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe with a review of a performance by James Gibbs
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.