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Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and collaborators who have worked with the playwrights, and also provides a digest of their theatrical output. Contributors provide new readings of Ngugi and Soyinka's classic texts, and astimulating new approach for students of English, Theatre and African studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The playscript for this volume is a previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka entitled \u003ci\u003eA Rain of Stones\u003c/i\u003e, first broadcast onBBC Radio 4 in 2002.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM \u0026 FEMI OSOFISAN Guest Editor: KIMANI NJOGU\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama \u0026 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 \u0026 Performance Studies, University of Warwick |
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