Download or read book Ola Rotimi s African Theatre written by Niyi Coker and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exploration into the writing, cultural and theatrical aesthetics of African writer and director, Ola Rotimi. It is a quest and search for an authentic African esthetic that has been transformed by at least two centuries of the European colonization. This work focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of the Ori Olokun theatre under the artistic direction of Ola Rotimi. It reviews Ola Rotimi's vision and impact with the Ori Olokun Company, and his quest to formulate a truly authentic African theatre, void of the imported European sensibility and colonially inherited aesthetic. The unique creative achievement of Rotimi's work at the Ori Olokun theatre, is that it evolved out of the ivory towers of the University, an 'unfriendly' territory as far as the indigenous theatre is concerned. Ola Rotimi dedicated his art to exploring the traditional/indigenous artistic expressions of the Nigeria people at a point when the African aesthetic had completely lost ground to the European value system. Three of Rotimi's historical plays are analyzed to understand and locate his historical perspective. African theatre, an issue that has dominated African theatre for the past half century. His solution is that writers must 'tamper with the English language to temper it's Englishness'. Clearly, what makes Rotimi unique, is that he brings to his plays, the linguistic characteristics and nuances that are authentic to African people.
Download or read book The Gods are Not to Blame written by Ola Rotimi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Epilogue written by Ola Rotimi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ola Rotini, the great Nigerian playwright, died in 2000. He was reworking two of his plays:îMan Talk, Women Talkî and ìTororo, Tororo, Roroî. They are now published posthumously, and represent an epilogue to his career as a theatre artist and comic playwright. In the first play, Rotimi seeks, with wry humour, resolution of the biases men and women hold against one another; and in the second, the lessons of sharing other peopleís problems are illuminated with comic effect. Effiok B. Unwatt is an Associate Professor of Literature, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Abuja. He is a former Head of the Department of English and Literary Studies.
Download or read book African Theatre in Performance written by Dele Layiwola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theatre - both traditional and contemporary. Dele Layiwola, Dapo Adelugba and Sonny Oti trace the beginnings of the School of Drama in 1960, at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where Martin Banham played a key and influential role in the growth of thriving Nigerian theatre repetoire and simulaneously encouraging the creation of a new theatre based on traditional Nigerian theatre forms. This comparative approach is taken up in Dele Layiwola's study of ritual and drama in the context of various traditions worldwide, while Oyin Ogunba presents a lucid picture of the complex use of theatre space in Yoruba ritual dramadar drama. Harsh everyday realitites, both physical and political, are graphically demonstrated by Robert McClaren (Zimbabwe) and Oga Steve Abah (Nigeria) who both show surprising and alarming links between extreme actual experiences and theatre creation and performance. The texts of the two plays - When Criminals Turn Judges by Ola Rotimi, The Hand that Feeds the King by Wale Ogunyemi, are followed by Austin O. Asagba's study of oral tradition and text in plays by Osofisan and Agbeyegbe, and Frances Harding's study on power, language, and imagery in Wole Soyinka's plays.
Download or read book Holding Talks written by Ola Rotimi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again written by Ola Rotimi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hopes of the Living Dead written by Ola Rotimi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopes of the Living Dead: A drama of struggle and hope by society's rejects. A true story of courage and resilience based on the life of Harcourt Whyte. Afflicted with leprosy at an early age and condemned to life as a beggar and an outcast, Harcourt broke the shackles of his existence by writing over two hundred popular church hymns. These became the standard in churches across Southeastern Nigeria and the trendsetter for all future Christian music in the region for decades to come. As a leader, Harcourt led the Lepers' Rebellion of 1928-32. The success of the revolt resulted in the creation of the self-sustaining Uzuakoli Leper Colony and Research Center where Harcourt and his counterparts, as human guinea pigs, helped in the discovery of cures for leprosy. Cured of the disease in 1949, Harcourt formed a choir made up of other Uzuakoli patients. This choir, known for their sonorous voices (for they did not have the appendages necessary for stringed instruments), performed in churches and entertained both the commoner and dignitaries across the land for decades.
Download or read book African Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
Download or read book Socio political Theatre in Nigeria written by Iremhokiokha Peter Ukpokodu and published by Mellen University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of Nigerian drama from the eve of independence to the 1980s with supportive materials from Nigeria's socio-political history. It examines the appropriateness and usage of the term Nigerian Drama and sets limits on its meaning. It also looks at what influences the Negritude movement and independence had on Nigerian drama, and why it is important to study Nigerian drama of socio-political concern. It examines pre-Colonial Nigeria, the style of politics and electioneering that marked the first Republic, the Marxist phenomenon in drama, the effects of the civil war, and the drama that resulted. It includes play synopses, and biographies of playwrights.
Download or read book Six Plays from East West Africa written by Jane Plastow and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2017 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theatre practitioners.
Download or read book The Athenian Sun in an African Sky written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western literature has become more influential in Africa since the independence of many of that continent's countries in the early 1960s. In particular, Greek tragedy has grown as model and inspiration for African theatre artists. This work begins with a discussion of the affinity that modern-day African playwrights have for ancient Greek tragedy and the factors that determine their choice of classical texts and topics. The study concentrates on how African playwrights transplant the dramatic action and narrative of the Greek texts by rewriting both the performance codes and the cultural context. The methods by which African playwrights have adapted Greek tragedy and the ways in which the plays satisfy the prevailing principles of both cultures are examined. The plays are The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka, Song of a Goat by J.P. Clark, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi, Guy Butler's Demea, Efua Sutherland's Edufa, Orestes by Athol Fugard, The Song of Jacob Zulu by Tug Yourgrau, Femi Osofisan's Tegonni, Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice, The Island by Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone.
Download or read book African Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second annual volume in the African Theatre series focuses on the intersection of politics and theatre in Africa today. Topics include the remarkable collaboration between Horse and Bamboo, a puppet theatre company based in the United Kingdom, and Nigerian playwright Sam Ukala that was inspired by the infamous execution of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists; the plays of Femi Osofisan; and plays by Ghanaian playwrights Joe de Graft and Mohammed Ben-Abdallah. African Theatre features the work of Mauritian playwright Dev Virahsawmy and includes an interview with him, reviews of an English production of his play, Toufann, as well as the translated playscript. Reports of workshops and conferences, reviews, and news of the year in African theatre make this volume a valuable resource for anyone interested in current issues in African drama and performance.
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.
Download or read book Drama and Theatre in Nigeria written by Yemi Ogunbiyi and published by Lagos : Nigeria Magazine. This book was released on 1981 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grip Am written by Ola Rotimi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ise, a poor farmer with a lot of problems and a tumultuous marriage is visited by an angel with a message. God has seen all your troubles and is tired of your marital squabbles so he sent me to grant you one wish each. Ise requests that if anyone or anything climbs his orange tree and he says "Grip Am" the tree will grab the climber and not release its grip until he (Ise) tells the tree to let go. In one comedic twist after another, Ise uses this power to get everything he wants. He even traps Angel of Death on to tree and makes him swear not to kill him or his wife ever. Ola Rotimi, the Author of the Nigerian Pidgin English Dictionary, wrote Grip Am entirely in Pidgin English and sends a more serious message beneath the humor
