African Theatre and Politics : : A Comparative Study.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures
• VerfasserIn: Plastow, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1996.; ©1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1 The Colonial Theatre
• The performance forms
• Dance-drama
• Drama
• Orature
• Pre-colonial literature
• Feudalism and communalism
• 2 Conformity, Christianity and Suppression: The Early Colonial Theatre
• Ethiopia
• Amhara imperialism
• The first plays
• The Italian occupation and after
• Tanganyika
• Formation and colonization
• The development of indigenous theatre forms
• Colonial cultural forms
• Drama
• Southern Rhodesia
• Colonization: from 1890 to 1965
• The repression of indigenous culture
• Promoting a new theatre
• White theatre
• White Rhodesian plays
• 3 Theatre in Liberation Struggles
• Tanganyika
• Political struggle
• The role of culture
• Ethiopia
• The rise of political awareness
• The reformist theatre
• The new drama
• The Creative Arts Centre
• Actors and theatres
• Southern Rhodesia
• The armed struggle 1965-1980
• The theatres of separate development
• Escapism and exclusivity: the white theatre
• "Kind" Whites and "good" Blacks: official African performance
• Black drama groups and festivals
• Liberation arts
• 4 A Time of Hope: The Theatre of Independence
• Tanzania
• Nyerere, Nationalism and Ujamaa
• Early post-independence theatre
• The impetus of Arusha
• The intellectual drama
• Government sponsored theatre
• Ethiopia
• The end of an empire
• The early revolutionary theatre
• The PMAC and the theatre
• Changing relations with government
• Plays in the professional theatres, 1976-1979
• Zimbabwe
• The question of nation building
• Towards a new culture
• The ZIMFEP initiative
• University drama
• "Amakhosi Theatre Productions" and the Bulawayo Association of Drama Groups
• Published drama.
• 5 Disillusion and Debate: The Contemporary Theatres
• Tanzania
• The apotheosis of the one-party state?
• Complacency and conformity: state arts
• The University and intellectual drama
• Popular performance art and cultural troupes
• Ethiopia
• A government in crisis
• A new beginning?
• The Theatre Arts Department
• The Amateur Arts Programme
• State control and the professional theatres
• Plays of the Eighties
• Theatre under the transitional government
• Zimbabwe
• A problem of credibility
• State attitudes to the performing arts
• Funding the theatres
• The independent arts
• The contemporary plays
• Annex A: Informants
• Bibliography
• Index.