Soyinka Plays: 2: A Play Of Giants; From Zia With Love; A Scourge Of Hyacinths; The Beatification Of Area Boy
by Wole Soyinka
2021-05-25 23:33:01
Soyinka Plays: 2: A Play Of Giants; From Zia With Love; A Scourge Of Hyacinths; The Beatification Of Area Boy
by Wole Soyinka
2021-05-25 23:33:01
''Unquestionably Africa''s most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest'' - New York Times Book Review A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of...
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''Unquestionably Africa''s most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest'' - New York Times Book Review A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet''s The Balcony and Brecht''s Arturo Ui. From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka''s stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s.
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