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Title:Re-imagining Bertolt Brecht, redefining British theatre: Oladipo Agboluaje's 'Mother Courage'
Author:Kasule, SamuelISNI
Year:2016
Periodical:African Performance Review (ISSN 1753-5964)
Volume:8
Issue:1
Pages:48-63
Language:English
Geographic terms:West Africa
United Kingdom
Subjects:performing arts
theatre
political conditions
social conditions
About person:Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956)
Abstract:The author examines how British playwright Oladipo Agboluaje's post-colonial reworking of 'Mother Courage' (2004) employs Brechtian characters and themes to comment on West African situations. Agboluaje's play interrogates issues of conflict, ethnic violence, corruption, migration, and the functioning of NGOs in war-torn Liberia and Sierra Leone. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]