FESTIVAL COMPLEX, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. ( AN EXPERIMENTS THEATRE COMPLEX)
FESTIVAL COMPLEX, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. ( AN EXPERIMENTS THEATRE COMPLEX)
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1983-05
Authors
ONOBA, MATTHEW OSEBORE'GA
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Abstract
Twenty five centuries after the first theatre was
built in Athens,patronage of the theatre as a live art
is still very unecouraging low compared with its counterparts
the television and the cinema which are more recent in
innovations. Urbanization is leading us to a gradual
drift from the live theatre to the cinema and television.
Concerted efforts are being made the world over the
to improve the situation towards a better patronage of
the live theatre. What then is the place of architecture
in this crusade for the theatre as a live art?
The aim of this thesis is to examine the existing
trends of theatre arts and to offer suggestions,
architectural in nature, towards improving this rather
unencouraging attitude towards the live theatre,
particularly in Africa where theatre architecture is still
at its formative years.
This accompanying write up is in three parts:
Part I: THEATRE GENERAL: Past, present and future.
Part II: Theatre Architecture: existing forms, basic
requirements.
Part III: THE SCHEME; Objectives, limitations, conceptualisation
and conclusions.
The festival complex, A.B.U. Zaria is proposed as
a theatre laboratory to evolve and develop the much sought
after Idiom of African theatre. It shall serve as an
Information Bank to collect and disseminate information
through the system of precept and example.
Description
A thesis submitted to the Postgraduate School
Ahmadu Bello University, in Partial
fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of: M.SC (Arch)
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA,
DATE: JUNE, 1983.
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FESTIVAL COMPLEX, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, EXPERIMENTS THEATRE COMPLEX