ADAPTATION AS A CREATIVE RESPONSE TO SOCIETAL CHANGE:
ADAPTATION AS A CREATIVE RESPONSE TO SOCIETAL CHANGE:
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1995-12
Authors
ISAH, MUHAMMAD RABI'U
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ABSTRACT
The experimental alternative theatre practice of the
Drama Village, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria could be said to
have achieve a definite and established results. This is
evident in the area of entertainment and instruction. This
achievement is recorded against the challenges faced by the
experiments. One, the already established Drama Practice of
the Ibadan School which extended from the Elizabethan and
classical tradition of theatre practice of the West, and two,
the rapid dynamism of the Nigerian Society. This experimental
alternative theatre is called by some people as Popular
theatre. This Popular theatre manifest in the famours
community theatre of the Drama Village and also in the style
of presentation of the formal theatre conventions. One of the
method of its presentation of the conventional drama is by way
of adapting plays through collective improvisation.
Adaptation which is the alteration of the context of an
existing drama or story to create a new one is done either to
up date the issues in the original version, or to radically
change the issue to a new context. In the drama Village's case
issues raised in original version of plays were radically
altered to address critical societal issues.
Some selected plays of this nature are hereby chosen for
analyses in this thesis. These plays are The Five Kobo Opera,
Perpetua And The Habit Of Unhappiness and Na So E Be. To
enhance our understanding of the works at Drama Village three
plays adapted by notable Nigerian Dramatists are also
discussed. The plays are The Gods' Are Not To Blame by Ola
Rehmi, Another Raft by Femi Osofisan and Opera Wongosi by Wole
Soyinka.
The discourse in this thesis is an attempt to provoke
serious minded scholarship to critically consider seriously
the aspect of dramatic adaptation which is in the Nigerian
Drama history. Also it attempts to by way of documentation
preserved a serious and important aspect of dramatic practice
within the Nigerian and to some extent African dramatic
practice.
Description
AN M.A. THESIS IN DRAMA
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND DRAMA
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
Keywords
ADAPTATION,, CREATIVE,, RESPONSE,, SOCIETAL,, CHANGE:, CRITICAL, APPRAISAL,, ADAPTED,, WORKS,, AHMADU,, BELLO,, UNIVERSITY,, ZARIA.