Theatre and Performance in East Africa

<p><em>Theatre and Performance in East Africa</em> looks at indigenous performances to unearth the aesthetic principles sensibilities and critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre. </p><p>The book develops new paradigms for thinking about African performance in general through the construction of a critical framework that addresses questions concerning performance particularities and coherences challenging previous understandings. To this end it establishes a common critical and theoretical framework for indigenous performance using case studies from East Africa that are also reflected elsewhere in the continent.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance especially those with an interest in the close relationship between theatre and performance with culture.</p>