Welcome to African Theatre Resource Centre
The African Theatre Document and Resource Centre is hosted by CHIPAWO. It is an interactive internet-based site intended:
- to act as a source of information about theatre
- to provide African practitioners and researchers opportunities to share, advertise, access, buy and sell each other’s work
- to organise festivals, webinars and conferences
Theatre artists
For too long African artists have been isolated from each other.
- where can I get scripts from other African countries to perform?
- how can I get my work known to my fellow African artists?
- where can I sell my work?
- where can I get news about what my fellow artists are doing in African thearre?
- where can I post my articles and read articles by other Africans?
- where can I find out how to access books and articles on African theatre?
Researchers
Many countries have National Bibliographies featuring books and articles on their theatre.
- the African Theatre Arts and Performance Bibliography
THE AFRICAN THEATRE DOCUMENT AND RESOURCE CENTRE aims to answer these needs
BOOK STORE
Browse through our treasure trove of amazing books on African Theatre from all over the continent. Get to see what different authors are doing in their respective countries.
LATEST NEWS
-
A new generation is determined to compete against streaming services and financial insecurity to carve out enclaves of creativity by Bahira Amin, Cairo Even before the enormously popular 1970s comedies of …
-
by Katrin Gänsler Soldiers start shooting in the middle of Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou. People scream. They take cover, waiting in fear to see what will happen next. Will the …
-
by Sanya Osha Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town The playwright, director and scholar was born in Sapele, Nigeria, in 1938 and passed away in 2000. He …