The Generation of Plays Yorùbá Popular Life in Theater
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From the 1940s to the 1980s, Yoruba popular theater was one of the most spectacularly successful theaters in Africa. Today, these traveling companies have virtually disappeared, largely as a result of economic hardship and the rise of video entertainment. In The Generation of Plays, Karin Barber recounts the history of the Oyin Adejobi Theatre company. Drawing on archival sources as well as extensive interviews and transcriptions of plays, Barber uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yoruba popular drama is brought to the stage. Barber reveals the personalities of the principal actors, how plays are created (from the germ of an idea through the logistics of rehearsal and staging), how a play is made meaningful to its audience, and how a play changes and develops after several productions or according to the sensibilities of its viewers. This rich and detailed narrative illuminates notions of gender, language, politics, and self as they are expressed in a popular cultural form.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780253338075 |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Imprint: | Indiana University Press |
Pub date: | 01 May 2001 |
DEWEY: | 792.089963330669 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 485 |
Weight: | 807g |
Height: | 242mm |
Width: | 163mm |
Spine width: | 38mm |