...Ossie Onuora Enekwe Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 Theatre in Nigeria: The Modern vs. The Traditional Ossie Onuora Enekwe Traditional Nigerian theatre has received scant atten- tion compared with the modern one that is European in impulse and ideology. The audience...

... prodigious 60 years, he was the hunted, forced to hug the wings of the night. He was hunted by Abacha - the Nigerian military dictator. At the end of that performance, he went with a small company of his friends - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Yemi Ogunbiyi, theater critic and ex-chairman of Nigeria’s...

...- Nigerian landscape, or do youjind them in other agating myths in the United States. The mass places, too? media has become a victim of its own success, and therefore a kind of social tyrant in the They’re mostly within the Nigerian landscape...

... as American afllnities with the world of 1984. The Uganda, Idi Amin, “the supreme actor,” and shows the reason for state-decreed end of a great Soviet stage directoI‘s Fareer in Moscow this superlative in his satiric drama, A Phy of Giunis. The Nigerian is recounted by Peter Sellars and Mark Bly...

... recently begun to understand the pervasive, and sometimes invisible, African influence on our theatre. This influence will undoubtedly continue. Ossie Enekwe is also aware of foreign influence-n the Nigerian theatre. His partisan analysis of this trend, and the corruption of traditional theatre...

... following his unlaw&I imprisonmentfrom the United Nations embassy of Qictional) Bugara, Dr. Presidat Field- 1967 to 1969 during the Nigerian Civil War, his work has grown increcIsing& Marshall El-Haj Dr. Kamini and his “brother life-presidents” pose upon and more mn;festly political. Yet there has...

... of oil money perverting Nigerian morality. I n the play s closing incantatory duelling, the crooks are defeated by the weightier magic of traditional Yoruba spiritual leaders. What is missing from this altogether satisfying work is precisely what print culture cannot provide. WestAJi-icanPopular Theatre...

... returning to the U. S. they found others hungry for knowledge The forest prince, a Nigerian intellectual, had come of their roots. Many dropped their “slave” names, to awaken the urban princess from a sleep of 300 Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roy Jones...

... perform- edited by Frances Harding ing arts in general. 2002: Routledge The Žrst section’s essays examine dra- matic rituals and practices among the Nigerian The Athenian Sun in an African Sky Igbo...

... perform- edited by Frances Harding ing arts in general. 2002: Routledge The Žrst section’s essays examine dra- matic rituals and practices among the Nigerian The Athenian Sun in an African Sky Igbo...

...-temps. Wole Soyinka, on the it-the one exception, Afolabi Ajayi, other hand, is a distinctive and intriguing being a native Nigerian-but in general artist, and his work deserves some dis• the play came across, although Michael cussion. Schu ltz' production...

... confiscated by principals in ghetto schools.) The strongest work I saw at Grahamstown was not South African: HeLa is a solo piece written and performed by Adura Onashile, whose Nigerian ancestry and Scot- tish residence highlight an unfamiliar corner of the African diaspora. HeLa is inspired...

... camps; the new black elite in the rich white suburbs; the new flag flying over the old police sta- tions; the white beggars; the Nigerian drug dealers in the inner city; the soldiers from the libera- tion army, now unwanted, unemployed, betrayed; the immigrants flooding over the borders from...

... tour of Macbeth in mid-2010. Bailey is a now working on a version of Verdi’s Aida for production in Sweden and FELA, a musical biogra- phy of Nigerian Afro-beat superstar Fela Kuti, to play in South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup “as an antidote to the glut of ‘curio-performance’ which...

... that, in a Mountains of Bali” (1939), in Traditional Balinese Culture, performance in a traditional society, “a person in stylized ed. Jane Belo (New York: Columbia University Press, movement is ips0 facto generating force,” Nigerian Images 1970), p. 142. (New York...