From: frederic-AT-dept.english.upenn.edu (Rhonda D. Frederick)
Subject: Re: West African ritual and performance
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:09:34 -0400 (EDT)


 LoyceA-AT-aol.com:

Have you looked at Wole Soyinka's "Death and the Kings Horseman"?

Rhonda Frederick
frederic-AT-dept.english.upenn.edu

> 
> I am researching West African ritual, (specificaly rituals from Nigeria, Cote
> d'Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal,) and its impact on African and African American
> theater.  I am looking for directors, playwrights, actors, dancers, scholars,
> theatres, and/or designers, etc., who are working in these areas.  I am
> especially interested in masking/masquerade.
> 
> Questions to begin with:
> In what way was ritual used in your production?
> 
> Do you have sources for articles, text, scripts, videos, etc., connected to
> the performance?  (I have been reading Soyinka's and Walcott's plays, but I
> am interested in recent productions).
> 
> Are there other African cultures and ritual that I should investigate?  In
> particular, cultures who have developed their rituals/traditional performance
> into "theater?"  (Not necessarily  theater as it is understood in
> Euro/Western terms.)
> 
> Are there sources online that I should investigate?
> 
> Please contact me at LoyceA-AT-aol.com
> or
> Loyce Arthur
> 1306 N. Frazier St
> Philadelphia, PA  19131
> 
> Thank you!
>      
> 
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