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African Shakespeares – a Discussion
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- By Michael Walling, Rose Bruford College, Juwon Ogungbe, Royal Shakespeare Company, Arne Pohlmeier, Two Gents Productions, Kate Stafford, Artistic Director of Bilimankhwe Arts, Dev Virahsawmy, Mauritian Creole
- Edited by Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds, James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England, Femi Osofisan, Professor at the University of Ibadan, Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds, Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
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- Book:
- African Theatre 12
- Published by:
- Boydell & Brewer
- Published online:
- 05 December 2013
- Print publication:
- 21 November 2013, pp 83-97
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Summary
Michael Walling: Welcome to this discussion, everybody. This is a bit of an experiment in creating an article with multiple voices, as a way of bringing together theatre-makers from around Africa and the UK in conversation. To introduce you to each other, round the Google table we have:
Juwon Ogungbe (JO) is a musician and theatre-maker, whose musical version of The Merchant of Venice performed at the 2012 (Harare International Festival of Arts) HIFA.
Arne Pohlmeier (AP) is the director of Two Gents Productions. He has worked with two Zimbabwean actors – Denton Chikura and Tonderai Munyevu – to create versions of Two Gentlemen of Verona and Hamlet. Two Gentlemen of Verona was performed in Shona at the Globe to Globe festival (London 2012).
Kate Stafford (KS) was founding director of Nanzikambe in Malawi and is currently Artistic Director of Bilimankhwe Arts in the UK. Kate has directed a number of Shakespeare productions in Malawi, including Macbeth (2004), Hamlet (2003) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005), and has worked as producer with both companies on Romeo and Juliet for the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival.
Dev Virahsawmy (DV) is a Mauritian playwright who has been prolific in translating Shakespeare's plays into Morisien (or Mauritian Creole), as well as writing his own contemporary adaptations of the plays, including Zeneral Makbef (1981), Toufann (1991) and Prezidan Otelo (2003).