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African Theatre 16: Six Plays from East &

West Africa (African Edition)
Martin Banham, Jane Plastow

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PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY

A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading

audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and
previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and
theatre practitioners.

This volume makes available some of the most influential,

imaginative and exciting plays to come out of East and West Africa
from the 1970s to the present day. Deliberately excluding playscripts
by the regions' two best known playwrights, Wole Soyinka and Ngugi
wa Thiong'o, whose work was profiled in African Theatre 13 the
editors have selected plays, some well-known and some less widely
available, that represent the diversity and richness of thesetwo very
different African regions. The playscripts include a new translation
from Amharic, as well as the English version of a play originally
written in French, making more theatre from some of Africa's
multitude of languages accessible to an English-reading audience.
, £10.99 / $15.95 Each script is accompanied by an essay from an expert on the work,
November 2017 the playwright, and the context in which the play was produced, so
9781847011732 that the volume will be of maximum use to both researchers and
335 Pages students of African theatre.

Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM & JANE PLASTOW

Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama &

Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting
Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan,
Professor of Drama, University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of
African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate
Professor, Department ofTheatre & Performance Studies, University
of Warwick

AUTHOR/EDITOR BIOGRAPHY
Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds.

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