Plays by Nation - African Plays

Woza Albert

Percy Mtwa & Mbongeni Ngema & Barney Simon

Methuen

The classic satire about what would happen if the Second Coming of Christ occurred in South Africa Originally produced at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, then under the legendary direction of Barney Simon...

$14.99

Death and the King's Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Methuen

Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A Briti...

$14.99

The Free State - A South African Response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Janet Suzman from Chekhov

Methuen

A stirring new version of The Cherry Orchard set in post-apartheid South Africa This powerful version of Chekhov's famous drama of disillusionment is set in rural South Africa on a farm producing cherry...

$14.99

Strands

Eric L. Wilson

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 0 Female

This collage of monologues, songs, and dance speaks of the power of African-American manhood The piece is driven by the rhythm of the drum, transforming this rhythm from the tribal call all the way to h...

$9.99

Journey of the Tall Horse - A Story of African Theatre - includes Tall Horse by Khephra Burns

Mervyn Millar

Oberon

With its mix of magnificent puppets, live actors, captivating costumes and evocative music, video projection and dance, Tall Horse has enchanted theatregoers world wide This book includes the playscript of ...

$32.99

Valley Song

Athol Fugard

Faber & Faber

A play which tells a gentle story of how the generations cope with the end of apartheid in South Africa. A young women wants to leave home to begin to lead her own life, but her grandfather takes this as an ...

$12.99

King Baabu

Wole Soyinka - Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Methuen

This chronicles the debauched rule of General Basha Bash who takes power in a coup and exchanges his general's uniform for a robe and crown In the manner of Jarry's Ubu Roi, this is a ferocious, crackpot sa...

$14.99

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color - An Anthology of 18 Plays

Kathy Perkins & Roberta Uno - eds

Routledge

This anthology crosses between women's studies, ethnic studies, and literature, compiling plays written by contemporary women of color It provides many diverse voices and theatrical approaches and proves bo...

$49.99

Talking Bones

Shay Youngblood

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 3 Female

In Talking Bones, Ruth, dignified, aristocratic and Bohemian, is trying to settle her affairs and family before she dies She hears voices and always interprets them to have special meaning in her life ...

$9.99

Ruined - 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Lynn Nottage

Theatre Communications

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage's extraordinary play The establishment's shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps pe...

$14.99

Marching for Fausua

Biyi Bandele

AmberLane Press

Marching for Fausa was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1993 and deals with political corruption in the Federal Republic of Songhai, a fictional country on the west coast of Africa. A young j...

$16.99

Mule Bone - A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston

Perennial Publications

This volume tells the story of the play's conception and inspiration and gives complete details of the irreparable rift in Hurston and Hughes's friendship that came about because of it Mule Bone is the ...

$13