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African Drama and Performance
ISBN: 9780253217011 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned and emerging voices, to the study of drama, theatre, and performance in Africa. Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are analyzed as a kind of social performance, and aspects of African performance in the diaspora are also considered. This dynamic volume underscores theatre's role in postcolonial... African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned ... |
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114,06 zł |
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Death and the King's Horseman
ISBN: 9780393322996 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial district officer. The king has died and Elesin, his chief horseman, is expected by law and custom to commit suicide and accompany his ruler to heaven. The stage is set for a dramatic climax when Pilkings learns of the ritual and decides to intervene and Elesin's son arrives home.
Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Ele...
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64,83 zł |
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Drums That Dance in the Dark
ISBN: 9780595441419 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utse has just realised her son's fate because he danced, violating the taboo of dancing (the third to meet such mysterious circumstances). History is about to repeat itself and the tragedy to come is all too familiar. Her daughter, Gada, sets loose the emotions that come to the fore. But while Utse and her husband, Malleah, fight against the odds, the seeds of betrayal know no bounds. Utse and her husband put the wheels in motion to reinforce the ban, but then behind their every turn, sedition prevails. Utse's is the cry of war, war with the family she loves, war on the home front. And... Utse has just realised her son's fate because he danced, violating the taboo of dancing (the third to meet such mysterious circumstances). History ... |
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47,48 zł |
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The Athenian Sun in an African Sky: Modern African Adaptations of Classical Greek Tragedy
ISBN: 9780786410934 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kevin Wetmore's study focuses on African American adaptations of classical Greek tragedy. The author concentrates on the method of transculturation that the playwrights use and explains why African Americans have embraced the ancient Greek material.
Kevin Wetmore's study focuses on African American adaptations of classical Greek tragedy. The author concentrates on the method of transculturation th...
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218,79 zł |
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Madmen and Specialists
ISBN: 9780809012268 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,05 zł |
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Statements
ISBN: 9780930452612 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apar...
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73,50 zł |
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Then She Said it: A Play
ISBN: 9780962886423 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The play is set in the metaphoric state of Hungaria. Nagging questions and concerns fuel the struggles of rising militant and radicalised women and youths in a dramatised revolutionary struggle for change and challenge to tradition. The relegated women take centre-stage to air their grievances and project their cause to the international community in an effort to destabilise the multinational forces and class interests which have oppressed them for so long. They ask, how long can a people whose land produces the richest oil and gas resources, which control local, national and foreign...
The play is set in the metaphoric state of Hungaria. Nagging questions and concerns fuel the struggles of rising militant and radicalised women and yo...
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157,07 zł |
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The Bronzes of Grand Juction
ISBN: 9781553952671 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The five Bronzes of Grand Junction are ordinary people instantly bronzed, like baby shoes, right in front of reliable witnesses, cause unknown. Could be the work of God, aliens, an artist, a magician. The bronzes cause quite a stir in town. And tourists arrive by the busload to see and talk about them. The result is an extended colloquy that is much more about us- America and Americans - than about the "bestatued" ones.
The five Bronzes of Grand Junction are ordinary people instantly bronzed, like baby shoes, right in front of reliable witnesses, cause unknown. Could ...
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69,38 zł |
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de Wet: Plays One
ISBN: 9781840021455 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The three plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle are folkloric and ostensibly native pieces of Afrikaner storytelling. All plays deal with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal order and as such are eloquent and haunting expressions of the current generation of Afrikaner seeking to free itself from the Calvinist manacles of traditional Afrikanerdom.
The three plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle are folkloric and ostensibly native pieces of Afrikaner storytelling. All plays deal with ...
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103,69 zł |
![Love, Crime and Johannesburg: A Musical [With Musical Score for Accompaniment] Junction Avenue Theatre Company 9781868143542 Witwatersrand University Press Publications](/9781868143542_love_crime_and_johannesburg_a_musical_with_musical_score_for_accompaniment.jpg "Love, Crime and Johannesburg: A Musical [With Musical Score for Accompaniment]") |
Love, Crime and Johannesburg: A Musical [With Musical Score for Accompaniment]
ISBN: 9781868143542 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?" asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian "Love, Crime and Johannesburg," the story of Jimmy 'Long Legs' Mangane, a people's poet involved in the struggle, who is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the "secret secret service." Lewis, his old friend and comrade from the struggle, now owns a bank. How did this happen? The man of the struggle is now a man of accounts. A man of the nineties. Part of the cellphone generation. Added to the mix is an old-style... "Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?" asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian "Love, Crime and Johann... |
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87,31 zł |
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Four Farcical Plays
ISBN: 9781870716093 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,05 zł |
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The Last Slave Traders
ISBN: 9789780290702 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jadin, the French Managing Director of a West African trading company in the 1940s, is so addicted to the old order of slave traders, that hereduces his employees to mental and emotional subjugation, destroying their sense of self-worth and dehumanising them. Laurent arrives to challenge Jadin's ruthlessness, but the face-off doesn't last for long. When Laurent replaces Jadin, he turns out to be an even worse example of one of the last slave traders.
Jadin, the French Managing Director of a West African trading company in the 1940s, is so addicted to the old order of slave traders, that hereduces h...
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100,98 zł |
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The Seven Deadly Sins
ISBN: 9789780292683 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of seven plays - the seven deadly sins: Gluttony, Lechery or the Bet, the Loafer, the Cheat, Avarice, Envy, and Pride and Ambition or The Sun King. The common thread is that all the deadly sins still destroy the efficacy of sound social and moral attitudes.
A collection of seven plays - the seven deadly sins: Gluttony, Lechery or the Bet, the Loafer, the Cheat, Avarice, Envy, and Pride and Ambition or The...
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190,73 zł |
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Two Plays
ISBN: 9789780305680 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first play, The Man who Walked Away, a principled and sensitive young man who has served a multi-national company for decades, is 'retrenched', with severe consequences for his self-respect and his family. In the second play, The Wedding Car, a corrupt businessman and politician exercises his ambition for his daughter to marry ostentatiously, though things do not go according to plan.
In the first play, The Man who Walked Away, a principled and sensitive young man who has served a multi-national company for decades, is 'retrenched',...
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129,05 zł |
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Women of Owu
ISBN: 9789780690267 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an African retelling of Euripides: an unnervingly topical story of a people and a beloved city destroyed by the brutality of war. The play was first performed in Lagos in 2003 under the distinguished director Chuck Mike, and subsequently toured the UK.
This is an African retelling of Euripides: an unnervingly topical story of a people and a beloved city destroyed by the brutality of war. The play was...
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145,86 zł |
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Once Upon Four Robbers
ISBN: 9789781291791 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The distinguished Nigerian playwright directed the first performance of this play at the Arts Theatre at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan's incisive vision is put at the service of oppressed humanity. His over-riding theme is that the machinery of oppression in human society is created by man, but man is also capable of demolishing it. The production includes Yoruba songs and incantations, and a glossary provides an English translation - as a guide for other directors to substitute appropriate dirges.
The distinguished Nigerian playwright directed the first performance of this play at the Arts Theatre at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan's incisive...
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89,75 zł |
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Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
ISBN: 9789781540035 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The award-winning noted playwright here takes a comic swipe at ideological misfits and opportunists who strut the ever-accommodating political landscape of contemporary Africa. A former military Major, takes to politics. His motives have far more to do with vanity than patriotism, and his attempts to adapt to a situation he hardly comprehends produce highly comic results. His predicament is complicated by the unexpected arrival of his American wife who discovers two more marriages contracted without her knowledge and her husband beset by political problems.
The award-winning noted playwright here takes a comic swipe at ideological misfits and opportunists who strut the ever-accommodating political landsca...
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145,86 zł |
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173,92 zł |
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Mugasha: Epic of the Bahaya
ISBN: 9789966250643 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is one of the most stirring tales from the folklore of East and Central Africa. Mugasha is a deity-king who harness natural elements and uses them to recapture the usurped kingdom of his father. He is in many ways a symbol of the indefatigable human zeal in the search for liberty and justice.
This is one of the most stirring tales from the folklore of East and Central Africa. Mugasha is a deity-king who harness natural elements and uses the...
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72,95 zł |
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The State Visit
ISBN: 9789780390587 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A recently published play from the prolific Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary critic, which testifies to the authors commitment to socially relevant art and artistic activism for which he is justifiably renowned. The play tells the story of Yankeland, an imaginary African country, where the countrys natural and donated wealth is in the hands of a few corrupt rulers in cahoots with the American military. The powerful prey on the exploited masses, whilst upholding a facade of god-fearing morality. The play is written in the style of street theatre and producs a biting and dramatic satire on...
A recently published play from the prolific Nigerian poet, dramatist and literary critic, which testifies to the authors commitment to socially releva...
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117,83 zł |
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