Africa on the Contemporary London Stage

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Freedom , London 1955: A Story of Modern Africa Written and Acted by Africans, or Perhaps Not

Chapter 3 Africa on the British Stage, 1955–1966

Chapter 4 ‘On One of Those Sunday Nights’: 50 Years of Africa at the Royal Court Theatre

Chapter 5 Biyi Bandele’s Theatre of the Afropolitan Absurd

Chapter 6 Nigerian Political Satire at the Soho Theatre: Class, Culture, and Theatrical Languages in Oladipo Agboluaje’s The Estate and Iyale (The First Wife)

Chapter 7 Black Masculinity and the Black Voice: Casting and Canonicity in the National Theatre Gala

Chapter 8 Disrupting Historical Mis-representations and Constructions: Talawa Theatre, Tiata Fahodzi, and Representations of Polyphonic Africa on the Contemporary London Stage

Chapter 9 IROKO Theatre and the African Theatre-in-Education Scene in London

Chapter 10 ‘But [We] Will Delve One Yard Below Their Mines/And Blow Them at the Moon’: Two Gents—‘Africa’, Shakespeare, and the Silent Revolution

Chapter 11 Interview with Ade Solanke

Chapter 12 Interview with Rotimi Babatunde