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Title:Revolutionary aesthetics in recent Nigerian theatre
Author:Obafemi, Olu
Year:1982
Periodical:African Literature Today
Issue:12
Pages:118-136
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subject:drama
Abstract:The development of a revolutionary approach to art and theatre among young Nigerian writers reveals a growing radical tendency. This development manifests itself in the young playwrights' commitment to the employment of the revolutionary potential of theatre to sharpen social awareness, adopt an alternative approach (socialist) to the obsolescence they find in the body politic of presentday Nigeria, and presenting recipes for social change. The remarkable point of departure between this young generation of dramatists in Nigeria (Femi Osofisan, Bode Sowande, Kole Omotoso, James Iroha) and their predecessors (Whole Soyinka, J.P. Clark) is the formers' conscious ideological commitment; their conviction that social change could come by the playwrights' ability to raise mass awareness to a positive revolutionary alternative to social decadence. The present article examines two plays of Femi Osofisan, 'The chattering and the song' and 'Once upon four robbers', as examples of the radical ideological stance through the theatrical medium of young playwrights in Nigeria. Notes.
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