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Contemporary African Plays Wole Soyinka

Contemporary African Plays By Wole Soyinka

Contemporary African Plays by Wole Soyinka

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Summary

The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femo Osofisan; The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whalley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, et al; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.

Contemporary African Plays Summary

Contemporary African Plays: Death and the King's;Anowa;Chattering & the Song;Rise & Shine of Comrade;Woza Albert!;Other War by Wole Soyinka

The only current anthology to survey the rich variety of contemporary African drama The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femi Osofisan; The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whaley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.Contemporary African Drama brings together some of the best writers writing from an African viewpoint today.

About Wole Soyinka

Percy Mtwa was born and bred in Wattville, Benoni. In 1979 director Gibson Kente gave him a role as singer/dancer in Mama and the Load, which played at the Market and Baxter Theatres and toured South Africa. Mbongeni Ngema was born in Umkumbane, Durban. He wrote and presented a play, Too Harsh, appeared in Kessie Govender's Working Class Hero, then wrote and, with Kessie's help, directed The Last Generation. In 1979 he came to Johannesburg and approached Gibson Kente for work, finally getting a character role in Mama and the Load, where he met Percy Mtwa. Barney Simon, founding Artistic Director of the Market Theatre, was born in Johannesburg. After backstaging for Joan Littlewood in the late 1950s, he joined Athol Fugard in Johannesburg's Dorkay House Rehearsal Room where The Blood Knot was first staged. He directed Fugard in Krapp's Last Tape and the first production of Fugard's own Hello and Goodbye. In 1974 he founded the Company with Mannie Manim, which made its home in Johannesburg's old Market in 1976. He was the three-time winner of the Breytenbach Epathlon for best director. Barney Simon died in 1995.

Table of Contents

Death and the King's;Anowa;Chattering & the Song;Rise & Shine of Comrade;Woza Albert!;Other War

Additional information

GOR002867711
9780413723307
0413723305
Contemporary African Plays: Death and the King's;Anowa;Chattering & the Song;Rise & Shine of Comrade;Woza Albert!;Other War by Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Play Anthologies
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
19990101
402
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