Experiencing WS - Softcover

Femi Euba

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1643789821 ISBN 13: 9781643789828

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

> Experiencing WS is a deeply engaging, exceedingly insightful, and well-written account of the experience and history of acting and directing since the mid-twentieth century. Its originality is manifested in every paragraph; its cumulative impact creates a revolutionary path to the understanding of acting in post-colonial Africa; its fabulous take on the mentor-mentee relationship is so compelling as to lead to an analytical framework on how to teach others. Euba has achieved what is hard to come by: a fact-based, rigorous, and sincere take on African theater situated within a rich historical context in order to understand the complexities of individual characters in their lived realities, along with the politics and culture of watershed moments. This fascinating book will certainly hold the interest of the reader from the very first page to the last. > > Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin; author of Counting the Tigers Teeth: An African Teenagers Story

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About the Author

Femi Euba is a Ph.D., MFA, MA., playwright, theater director, actor, novelist, and scholar. Currently Professor of Theatre and English at Louisiana State University, he studied acting at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in England, Playwriting and African American Studies at Yale, and Literature-in-English at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. His works include Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate; Poetics of the Creative Process; Camwood at Crossroads, a novel; the BBC Radio plays; and full-length plays such as The Eye of Gabriel and Dionysus of the Holocaust.

Edition details

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1643789821
• ISBN 13: 9781643789828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276