مؤلف: Jane Plastow

A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works – a superb resource for scholars and theat …

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This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Erit …

This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishe …

First-hand accounts of how Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentie …

A key volume for Shakespeare, African theatre and postcolonial cultural scholars, promoting debate on the role of Western cultural icons in contemporary postcolonial cultures. This volume takes as it …

Looks at the lives, challenges and contributions of African women from across the continent to making and participating in theatre in the 21st century. Drawing on expertise from across the African co …

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 wr …

What kinds of documentation of performances exist – both of colonial and indigenous theatre and how may this range of documentation have affected how we read theatre history? African performers, dram …

This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, compa …