Looks at the lives, challenges and contributions of African women from
across the continent to making and participating in theatre in the 21st
century.
Drawing on expertise from across the African continent this collection
reflects the realities for women working and making theatre: how
Egyptian director Dalia Basiouny has documented the "Tahrir Stories" of
the Egyptian Revolution; how in Uganda women have used various
theatrical devices, such as oral poetry, to seek common ground in a
rural-urban inter-generational theatre project; and the use of physical
theatre to examine disavowed memory in South Africa. The contributors
also look at how practitioners are re-thinking performance space and
modes of performance for gendered advocacy in Botswanan theatre, and how
women are addressing gender-based violence and rape culture, comparing
performance and street-based activism in South Africa and India. A
particular strength of the volume is its interviews: with Jalila Baccar
of Tunisia, by Marvin Carlson; six Ethiopian actresses are interviewed
and introduced by Jane Plastow and Mahlet Solomon; and Ariane Zaytzeff
explores "Making art to reinvent culture" with Odile Gakire Katese of
Rwanda. The new play to be published is The Sentence by Sefi Atta,
introduced and contextualized by Christine Matzke.
Volume Editors: JANE PLASTOW & YVETTE HUTCHISON Guest Editor: CHRISTINE
MATZKE
Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre
Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research
Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of
Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African
Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor,
Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
