In several Nigerian universities, theories of Western stage directors who are long dead are still relied upon to teach Nigerian students the art of stage directing. This is akin to eating Nigerian delicacies, such as isi ewu (a goat's head delicacy), which are traditionally eaten with fingers, with cutlery. How can the brain of an aspiring Nigerian theatre director be full of the principles of Russian, German, English, French, and Polish stage directors who are all dead, while he or she does not know much about contemporary Nigerian stage directors, many of whom are still alive and practising? This is the major lacuna that this book fills. Containing essays and interview contributions from 30 directors of different ages, generations, genders, and social classes, and from different parts of Nigeria and beyond, this book will afford the future generation of stage directors, not only in Nigeria but also in the world at large, the opportunity to learn from an epistemic community and stand on the shoulders of indigenous Nigerian theatre giants to touch the sky.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781036419011
Publisert
2025-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
458

Om bidragsyterne

Before joining Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria, in 2019, Bisi Adigun was an adjunct lecturer of theatre and performance studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Adigun is the author of An Other Playboy, The Butcher Babes and Home Sweet Home (2018), co-editor, with Duro Oni, of The Soyinka Impulse: Essays on Wole Soyinka (2019) and editor of Remembering Ola Rotimi: A Complete Man of the Theatre – Essays and Tributes (2022). During Duro Oni's professional/academic career at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, between 1976 and 2022, he served as Head of the Department of Creative Arts, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Oni's publications include: Striking Expressions: Theatre and Culture in National Development (2017), The Soyinka Impulse: Essays on Wole Soyinka (edited with Bisi Adigun, 2019) and Larger Than His Frame II: Critical Studies and Reflections on Olu Obafemi (edited with Sunday Ododo, 2021).