Soyinka Plays: 2
by Wole Soyinka
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Readers appreciate the insightful commentary on global powers and economics in Soyinka's plays. The dialogue resonates with contemporary issues, making it relevant and thought-provoking.
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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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Soyinka Plays: 2 is a African play written by Wole Soyinka and published by Methuen in London (1999).
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Methuen · 1999 · 368 pp
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