African Theatre 11 Festivals [Paperback]

During the last fifty years, large sums of money, huge resources of labour and vast amounts of creative energy have been invested in international theatre festivals in Africa. Under banners such as 'Reclaiming the African Past' and 'African Renaissance', the festival participants have used the performing arts to address a variety of topical issues and to confront images embedded by a century of patronising colonial expositions. The themes indicate the desire to take history by the forelock, challenge perceptions and transform communities. Volume Editor: JAMES GIBBS 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 at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of WarwickContributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre.Editor's Introduction - James GibbsFestivals as a strategy for the development of theatre in Zimbabwe, 1980-201 - Robert Mshengu KavanaghThe legacy of Festac '77: the challenge of the Nigerian National Theatre at Iganmu - Ahmed YerimaFestac, month by month and Soyinka's involvement - James GibbsThe Dakar Festivals of 1966 & 2010 - Yatma DieyeAfrican Renaissance between rhetoric & the aesthetics of extravagance: FESMAN 2010 - entrapped in textuality - Amy NiangTheatre Programme for FESMAN, with Commentary - James GibbsThe Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (Panafest) in Ghana, 1922-2010: the vision & the reality - Victor K. YankahPanafest through the Headlines: an Annotated Bibliography - James GibbsInternational festivals & transnational theatre circuits in Egypt, 1988-2010: ambassadors of no nation - Sonali PahwaThe Jos Theatre Festival, lӄ