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Creative Collaboration
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Financial Constraints
Intellectual Freedoms
Political Complications
Theatre Companies
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- ISBN 9781847015006
- Weight: 242g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2008
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints.
A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of theatre life in Africa, yet, as companies profiled here grapple with the issues of 'creativity and collaboration' much is revealed about the way theatre companies across the continent face the challenges of financial constraints, the political complications of sponsorship and funding, the need for creative or intellectual freedoms, the intricacies of contracts and the crucial decisions about venues and audiences.
Volume Editor: JAMES GIBBS, University of the West of England.
Series editors: Martin Banham, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan
The contributors include: DEXTER LYNDERSAY, FOLUKE OUGUNLEYE, SIRI LANGE, ALLY MKUMBILA, BRACCO CHITOSA, MANFRED LOIMEIR, LUCY RICHARDSON, CHRISTINE MATZKE, VICTOR S. DUGGA, PATRICK-JUDE OTEH, BASIL JONES, MICHAEL WALLING, BRITISH COUNCIL, JOS REPERTORY THEATRE.
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. CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin.
