Ukaegbu, V. (2011) Witnessing to (in), and from the Centre in Black British theatre: Dipo Agboluaje and the Theatre of Dialogic Centrism. Panel Presentation presented to: International Conference of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) 2011, Centre for Innovative Performance Practice & Research, Swansea Metropolitan University, 21-23 July 2011. (Unpublished)
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Abstract:
Since his arrival on the UK stage in 2003 with his first play, the political satire, ‘Early Morning’, Dipo Agboluaje has written over 20 plays. ‘The Wish Collector', in Class Acts: New Plays for Children to Act, The Hounding of David Oluwale, The Christ of Coldharbour Lane, and The Estate have been published and among many others, staged in the UK and Germany. An appraisal of his plays including ’Early Morning’, ‘British-ish’, ‘Captain Britain’, ‘The Road Taken’ and ‘Knock Against My Heart’ reveals a dramaturgy that subsumes centrifugal relationships and binaries, in other words, the us-them and ‘two worlds’ (Sierz, 2006) of postcolonial otherness in a concept of dialogic centrism
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Ukaegbu, V.
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Date:
July 2011
Date Type:
Presentation
Event Title:
International Conference of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) 2011
Event Dates:
21-23 July 2011
Event Location:
Centre for Innovative Performance Practice & Research, Swansea Metropolitan University
Event Type:
Conference
Language:
English
Status:
Unpublished
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