Terrorism and the coronavirus are curtailing the activities of Burkina Faso’s only permanent theatre, the Carrefour International Theatre of Ouagadougou, or CITO for short.…
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Twenty years after his death, the Nigerian dramatist, Ola Rotimi, is attracting renewed interest. San Diego State University hosted a webinar in April 2021 where the affection and reverence…
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The film, in the Yoruba language, of Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist…
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SOUTHERN AFRICAN FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (SAFE) 3RD ANNIVERSARY – A SUCCESS AFTER THE PANDEMIC
Rashiwe Chipurunyenye It was never a secret that CHIPAWO always delivers and the Southern African Festival for Children and Young People, SAFE was served…
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Based on the true story of Ethiopian Novelist ByAboneh Ashagrie Zeiyesys Directed by the author and performed at the Mandela Hall, Addis Ababa University…
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By Richard Pankhurst Menghestu Lemma, who died in Addis Ababa at the end of July 1988 aged sixty-five, was a scholar, poet, playwright and…
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ABONEH ASHAGRIE, Addis Ababa University Since the beginning of theatre arts in Ethiopia in 1921, children had been per- forming plays merely for the satisfaction…
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Aboneh AshagreAssociate professor-AAU The first theatrical performance in our country was staged in 1921 in Addis Ababa through the efforts of Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariam…
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Samuel Ravengai Generation 1 The first generation of Zimbabwean theatre makers was born between the early part of the 20th century and 1939. Their support…
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The African Theatre Webinar Series (ATW) is a collaboration between two friends employed as theatre pedagogues, Marion Kuester and Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare. Marion works…