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From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:
In celebration of Wole Soyinka's 80th birthday, a drama based on a real event in 1940s Nigeria. A colonial district officer intervenes to prevent a local man committing ritual suicide
Death And The King's Horseman is considered to be Professor Soyinka's greatest play. In awarding Soyinka the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the Swedish Academy drew special attention to Death and the King's Horseman as evidence of his talent for combining Yoruban and European cultu ...more
In celebration of Wole Soyinka's 80th birthday, a drama based on a real event in 1940s Nigeria. A colonial district officer intervenes to prevent a local man committing ritual suicide
Death And The King's Horseman is considered to be Professor Soyinka's greatest play. In awarding Soyinka the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the Swedish Academy drew special attention to Death and the King's Horseman as evidence of his talent for combining Yoruban and European cultu ...more
As I don't want to treat bad something just because I don't understand it, like Jane in the plot, I would just say that as I have not studied colonialism in its forms, I'm not able to judge this play.
Siccome non vorrei parlare male di qualcosa solo perché non la capisco, come la Jane del dramma, mi limiteró a dire che, siccome non ho nessun background in studi colonialistici, non sono in grado di giudicare questa piece. ...more
Siccome non vorrei parlare male di qualcosa solo perché non la capisco, come la Jane del dramma, mi limiteró a dire che, siccome non ho nessun background in studi colonialistici, non sono in grado di giudicare questa piece. ...more
Jan 09, 2017
Jim Townsend
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Kim
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