African Theatre 3: Women
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African theatre
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Author_Osofisan Femi
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Gender
South Africa
Women in theatre
Women playwrights
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- ISBN 9780852555965
- Weight: 256g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 2002
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Includes the playscript of Glass House by Fatima Dike with a brief introduction by Marcia Blumberg.
Women have struggled to be heard in the world of modern African theatre. Traditionally they had secure roles as dancers, singers and storytellers, but as theatre became professionalised and commercialised, control increasingly laywith the literate elites. This volume is testimony to the scope of their work as playwrights, musicians and actors from the Algerian diaspora to the new South Africa.
Guest edited by JANE PLASTOW
North America: Indiana U Press; South Africa: Wits U Press
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.
