African Theatre For Development
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Author | : Kamal Salhi |
Publisher | : Intellect Books |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts, critics and artists from across the world. The contributions are in a language and style that allow them to be read either as aids to formal study or as elements of discussion to interest the general reader.
Author | : Martin Banham |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253335999 |
"A truly worthwhile resource in a growing field of research--the theater and drama of Africa--this volume collects ten essays about theater practice, publications, and productions; in-depth reviews of 17 books; and a new play." --Choice "... a 'must-have' for anybody interested in issues relating to theatre and development in Africa.... a pioneering effort... " --H-Net Reviews Art as a tool, weapon, or shield? This compelling issue and others are explored in this diverse collection of intriguing perspectives on African theatre in development. Also here: strategies in staging, propaganda, and mass education, and a discussion of the playwright Alemseged Tesfai's career in service to Eritrean liberation.
Author | : L. Dale Byam |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-12-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0897895819 |
Africa has internal cultural resources that have positively influenced its development. Community in Motion explores the relationship between theatre and Freirian pedagogy. It underscores the urgency of refocusing development strategies on human rather than technical resources by showing how culture has traditionally played an important role in African development, and demonstrates the similarities between traditional African cultural paradigms and Freirian pedagogy. The author describes selected significant Theatre for Development programs in diverse parts of Africa and determines the extent that these programs find congruence with the teachings of Paulo Freire. Case studies of Botswana, Zambia, Nigeria, and Kenya explore in detail the ongoing work in Zimbabwe, specifically the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT). ZACT's work is analyzed in the context of Freirian pedagogy in order to highlight the development of a community-based theatre operation that is national in its scope and international in its influences.
Author | : C. P. Epskamp |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2006-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781842777336 |
The Theatre for Development (TFD) is a learning strategy in which theatre is used to encourage communities to express their own concerns and think about the causes of their problems and possible solutions. This overview contributes to both the theory and practice of Theatre for Development. The author contextualises it historically within the evolving range of development theories, strategies and practices, notably including the now widely accepted notion of participatory approaches to achieving social change.
Author | : Niyi Coker |
Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Christopher B. Balme |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783487163314 |
Author | : Kene Igweonu |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9401200823 |
Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.
Author | : Michael Etherton |
Publisher | : Hutchinson |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kamal Salhi |
Publisher | : Intellect Books |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1841508683 |
African Theatre for Development acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society. It provides the subject with a degree of detail unmatched in previous books, reflecting a new approach to the study of the performing arts in this region. The collection: • reveals the dynamic position of the arts and culture in post-independent countries as well as changes in influences and audiences, • shows African theatre to be about aesthetics and rituals, the sociological and the political, the anthropological and the historical, • examines theatre's role as a performing art throughout the continent, representing ethnic identities and defining intercultural relationships, • investigates African theatre's capacity to combine contemporary cultural issues into the whole artistic fabric of performing arts, and • considers the variety of voices, forms and practices through which contemporary African intellectual circles are negotiating the forces of tradition and modernity. The book provides an opportunity to discover contemporary material from experts, critics and artists from across the world. The contributions are in a language and style that allow them to be read either as aids to formal study or as elements of discussion to interest the general reader.
Author | : Christopher Odhiambo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |