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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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 wit who may be considered the …
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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 of adult audience for more than …
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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 Wayeh. Here is how it started. …