Africa on the Contemporary London Stage

Tiziana Morosetti is a fixed-term affiliate with the African Studies Centre, Oxford, UK, where she teaches African Literature. She is deputy-director of the journal Quaderni del ’900, and the membership secretary of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). She is the editor of Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama (2016).

• 1. Introduction; Tiziana Morosetti.- 2. Freedom, London 1955: A Story of Modern Africa Written and Acted by Africans, or Perhaps Not; James Gibbs.- 3. Africa on the British Stage, 1955-1966; Stephen J. Nicholson.- 4. ‘On One of Those Sunday Nights’: 50 Years of Africa at the Royal Court; Tiziana Morosetti.- 5. Biyi Bandele’s Theatre of the Afropolitan Absurd; Michael Pearce.- 6. Nigerian Political Satire at the Soho Theatre: Class, Culture, and Theatrical Languages in Oladipo Agboluaje’s The Estate and Iyale (The First Wife); Lynette Goddard.- 7. Black Masculinity and the Black Voice: Casting and Canonicity in the National Theatre Gala; Sophie Duncan.- 8. Disrupting Historical Mis-Representations and Constructions: Talawa Theatre, Tiata Fahodzi and Representations of Polyphonic Africa on the Contemporary London Stage; Victor Ukaegbu.- 9. Iroko Theatre and the African Theatre-in-Education Scene in London; Alex Oma-Pius.- 10. ‘But [We] Will Delve One Yard below Their Mines/And Blow Them at the Moon’: Two Gents: ‘Africa’, Shakespeare, and the Silent Revolutio; Arne Pohlmeier.- 11. Interview with Ade Solanke; Tiziana Morosetti.- 12. Interview with Rotimi Babatunde; Ying Cheng.- 13. Interview with Dipo Agboluaje; Tiziana Morosetti.