Trends in twenty-first century African theatre and performance / edited by Kene Igweonu.

• Superior document: Themes in theatre
• Author: International Federation for Theatre Research. African Theatre and Performance Working Group.
• TeilnehmendeR: Igweonu, Kenechukwu, 1975-; International Federation for Theatre Research. African Theatre and Performance Working Group.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Themes in theatre.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 p.)
• Notes: "IFTR / FIRT; African Theatre and Performance Working Group".

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD / Temple Hauptfleisch -- STRIDING OUT: EMERGENT TRENDS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AFRICAN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE / Kene Igweonu -- THE DILEMMA OF THE AFRICAN BODY AS A SITE OF PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF WESTERN TRAINING / Samuel Ravengai -- INTERCULTURALISM REVISITED: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN PERFORMANCE / Kene Igweonu -- BEYOND THE MIRACLE: TRENDS IN SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE AFTER 1994 / Johann Van Heerden -- TRANSFORMATION AND THE DRAMA STUDIES CURRICULUM IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SURVEY OF SELECTED UNIVERSITIES / Patrick Ebewo -- THE TALL TALE OF TALL HORSE: THE ILLUSION (OR MANIFESTATION) OF AFRICAN CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL AESTHETICS IN HYBRID PERFORMANCES / Petrus Du Preez -- FROM TRANCE DANCE TO PaR: THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA / Temple Hauptfleisch -- THEATRE IN/FOR DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA: A NEOLIBERAL NIGHTMARE / Vicensia Shule -- A VOICE IN THE TEETH OF POWER: POPULAR THEATRE UNDER THE CENSORSHIP RADAR IN ZIMBABWE (1998-2008) / Praise Zenenga -- CITIZENS’ STORIES – OR THEATRE AS PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP IN ZIMBABWE / Vibeke Glørstad -- TOWARDS A POLITICALLY EFFICACIOUS COMMUNITY-BASED THEATRE / Ola Johansson -- DANCE MOVEMENT ANALYSIS AS PSYCHO-DIAGNOSTIC TOOL IN MODERN NIGERIAN MEDICAL PRACTICE: AN INTRODUCTION / Gladys Ijeoma Akunna -- TREADING SUBTLY ON VOLATILE GROUND: AHMED YERIMA’S HARD GROUND AND THE DRAMATIZATION OF THE NIGER DELTA CRISIS IN NIGERIA / Osita Ezenwanebe -- DRAMA AS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: AHMED YERIMA’S HARD GROUND AND THE POLITICS OF THE NIGER DELTA / Adebisi Ademakinwa -- THEATRE-ON-DEMAND: STELLA OYEDEPO – THEATRICAL MEGASTAR OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY / Ngozi Udengwu -- ABIBIGORO: MOHAMED BEN ABDALLAH’S SEARCH FOR AN AFRICAN AESTHETIC IN THE THEATRE / Awo Mana Asiedu -- AFRICAN DANCE IN DIASPORA: THE EXAMPLES OF NIGERIAN YORUBA BÀTÁ AND DÙNDÚN / Jeleel O. Ojuade -- CELEBRATION AS AESTHETIC DEVICE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN DANCE PRODUCTIONS: HUBERT OGUNDE’S DESTINY AS EXAMPLE / Chris Ugolo -- ‘PIECING TOGETHER A GIRLHOOD’: USING THE ‘GIRLFRIEND AESTHETIC’ AS A PRACTICAL METHODOLOGY IN THE MAKING AN PERFORMANCE OF KATUNTU (…AND YOU TOO) / Alude Mahali -- ABSTRACTS / Samuel Ravengai -- A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN THEATRE (1990-2011) / Kene Igweonu -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.