Overview
- Plastow's second volume on East African theatre history
- Covers numerous countries in central East Africa
- Covers francophone theatre, British East African colonialism, and the post-colonial period
Part of the book series: Transnational Theatre Histories (TTH)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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About this book
This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre in Djibouti. The chapter is particularly concerned to explore how French and Belgian cultural policies impacted theatre during the colonial period and how the French ideas of Francafrique and promotion of elite, French language art have continued to resonate in the post-colonial present. Chapters Two and Three look comparatively at the rich theatre histories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and are divided between a study of British East African colonial impact and an analysis of the post-colonial period illustrating how divergent political thought and societal make-up led to exponential differentiation in national theatres. The final chapter, on Theatre for Development and related social action theatre, covers the whole East African region, offering the first ever historicised analysis of this mode of theatre making which, since the 1980s, has come to dominate funding and opportunity in performance arts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research, teaching and theatre making have focused on East Africa for over three decades and she has lived and worked in a number of the countries featured in A History of East African Theatre (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2
Book Subtitle: Central East Africa
Authors: Jane Plastow
Series Title: Transnational Theatre Histories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87731-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87730-9Published: 03 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87733-0Published: 04 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87731-6Published: 02 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-5893
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global/International Theatre and Performance, Theatre History, Contemporary Theatre