Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
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| Summary: | XV, 246 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94508-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction; Tiziana Morosetti
- 2. Freedom, London 1955: A Story of Modern Africa Written and Acted by Africans, or Perhaps Not; James Gibbs
- 3. Africa on the British Stage, 1955-1966; Stephen J. Nicholson
- 4. ‘On One of Those Sunday Nights’: 50 Years of Africa at the Royal Court; Tiziana Morosetti
- 5. Biyi Bandele’s Theatre of the Afropolitan Absurd; Michael Pearce
- 6. Nigerian Political Satire at the Soho Theatre: Class, Culture, and Theatrical Languages in Oladipo Agboluaje’s The Estate and Iyale (The First Wife); Lynette Goddard
- 7. Black Masculinity and the Black Voice: Casting and Canonicity in the National Theatre Gala; Sophie Duncan
- 8. Disrupting Historical Mis-Representations and Constructions: Talawa Theatre, Tiata Fahodzi and Representations of Polyphonic Africa on the Contemporary London Stage; Victor Ukaegbu
- 9. Iroko Theatre and the African Theatre-in-Education Scene in London; Alex Oma-Pius
- 10. ‘But [We] Will Delve One Yard below Their Mines/And Blow Them at the Moon’: Two Gents: ‘Africa’, Shakespeare, and the Silent Revolutio; Arne Pohlmeier
- 11. Interview with Ade Solanke; Tiziana Morosetti
- 12. Interview with Rotimi Babatunde; Ying Cheng
- 13. Interview with Dipo Agboluaje; Tiziana Morosetti.