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African Theatre Association
The African Theatre Association is an international non-profit
society open to scholars and practitioners of African performance and theatre.
Its primary aim, through its annual conference, is to be a forum for the exploration
of African performance and theatre processes. It intends to serve as a bridge
between African theatre practices and scholarship in Africa and the African
Diaspora, by bringing academics and theatre-makers together. The Association
will initiate and lead discussions on African performance theory and practice.
Its journal, African Performance Review, will help define and shape
African performance and theatre scholarship and pedagogy by liberating them
from a bondage to non-African discursive frameworks.
Women in African Performance and Theatre
A One-Day Inaugural Symposium was hosted by The African Theatre Association
in collaboration with The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing,
Goldsmiths.
8 April 2006
Organiser: Dr Osita Okagbue, Drama, Goldsmiths (0207 919 7581)
Venue: Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths
Programme
| 10.00 |
Registration/tea & coffee |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Opening |
11.00 - 1.20pm |
Morning session (20
mins for each paper)
Dr Esiaba Irobi (University of Ohio) ‘Feminist
Aesthetics in African Theatre of the Colonial Period’
Dr Sam Kasule (University of Derby) ‘Resistant
Voices in African Popular Performance’
Dr Jumai Ewu (University of Northampton), ‘Crossing
the Zaure: Theatre-for-Development and Women’s Empowerment
in Nigeria’
12.00 Tea/Coffee
Dr Osita Okagbue (Goldsmiths College), ‘Through
Other Eyes and Voices: Women and Marginality in Koteba and Mmonwu Performances’
Chikukuango Cuxima-zwa (SOAS), ‘Taking
a Backseat: Women’s Participation in African Performance and
Theatre’
Adeleke Durotoye (Ibadan) ‘Yoruba Females
in African Ritual Performance’
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| 1.20 - 1.50pm |
Discussions |
| 2.00 - 3.00pm |
Lunch |
3.10 - 5.10pm |
Afternoon Session
Dr Victor Ukaegbu (University of Northampton) ‘Gendered
Invisibility: The Misrepresentation of Women in African Performance’
Reginald Ofodile (University of Exeter) ‘Status
and Spirit: Women Traders in Wole Soyinka’s The Trials
of Brother Jero and Death and the King’s Horseman’
Kenechukwu Igweonu (Royal Holloway), ‘Gender
and Sexuality in Zulu Sofola’s King Emene: A Visionary
and Pragmatic Approach to Feminism in Contemporary African Theatre
and Performance’
Dr Oladipo Agboluaje (London) ‘Representations
of Women in the Plays of Wole Soyinka and Zakes Mda’
Ndubuisi Anike (London) ’Standing in the
Gap: Female Characters in the Plays of Aidoo, Sutherland,
Dike, Sofola and Onwueme’
Sola Adeyemi (Tiscali) ‘Agony, Antigone and
the Dialectics of Resistance in African Performance’
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| 5.10-5.50pm |
Discussions |
| 6.00pm |
Closing |
For general enquiries about the Conference, including schedule, website and
submission questions, please contact Dr
Osita Okagbue. |
