Africa on the Contemporary London Stage (eBook)

Tiziana Morosetti is a fixed-term affiliate with the African Studies Centre, Oxford, UK, where she teaches African Literature. She is deputy-director of the journal Quaderni del ’900, and the membership secretary of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). She is the editor of Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama (2016).   

1 IntroductionPart I Africa on the London Stage, 1955–20132 Freedom, London 1955: A Story of Modern Africa Written and Acted by Africans, or Perhaps Not3 Africa on the British Stage, 1955–19664 ‘On One of Those Sunday Nights’: 50 Years of Africa at the Royal Court Theatre5 Biyi Bandele’s Theatre of the Afropolitan Absurd6 Nigerian Political Satire at the Soho Theatre: Class, Culture, and Theatrical Languages in Oladipo Agboluaje’s The Estate and Iyale (The First Wife)7 Black Masculinity and the Black Voice: Casting and Canonicity in the National Theatre GalaPart II Companies and Theatre Practitioners8 Disrupting Historical Mis-representations and Constructions: Talawa Theatre, Tiata Fahodzi, and Representations of Polyphonic Africa on the Contemporary London Stage9 IROKO Theatre and the African Theatre-in-Education Scene in London10 ‘But [We] Will Delve One Yard Below Their Mines/And Blow Them at the Moon’: Two Gents—‘Africa’, Shakespeare, and the Silent Revolution11 Interview with Ade Solanke12 Interview with Rotimi Babatunde13 Interview with Dipo Agboluaje