Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent African playwrights from West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and collaborators who have worked with the playwrights and a record of their theatrical output. Contributors provide new readings of Ngugi and Soyinka's classic texts, and a stimulating new approach for students of English, Theatre and of African studies
Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent African playwrights from West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and collaborators who have worked with the playwrights and a record of their theatrical output. Contributors provide new readings of Ngugi and Soyinka's classic texts, and a stimulating new approach for students of English, Theatre and of African studies
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 A previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka Book Reviews
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
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