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
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Articles
NIGERIA – Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka: what is it about and does it still matter?NIGERIA –
by Babatunde Onikoyi, University of Regina [Tunde Onikoyi, a lecturer in African literature and film, acted in the original play] The film streams on Netflix from 10 September What is Death and …
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ZIMBABWE – Professional youth theatre group revived with play in Shona about peace and conflict transformation.ZIMBABWE –
The New Horizon Youth Theatre company, a project in the CHIPAWO Youth Programme, was very active at one time but various factors led to its collapse. Now it is being …
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SOUTH AFRICA – What’s on at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg? Frantz Fanon’s love play, The Drowning Eye.
The Drowning Eye premiered to critical acclaim and full houses at this year’s National Arts Festival (NAF) in Makhanda and will now open at The Ramolao Makhene Theatre in Johannesburg on …