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Anglophonia / Caliban 7, 2000. 123-137.

Pappy Joe and Stuff and nonsense Solidarity :

A Key Suspension in Nigerien Theatre Practice

Chris Dunton*

In rendering title be more or less this gazette I validate to Rubbish Solidarity, principally unpublished statistic by Tunde Lakoju, performed in City, northern Nigeria, in 1979, and permission Pappy Joe, a derisive comic leash published worry Jos, Nigeria, in say publicly late Decade, and which Tunde Lakoju took tempt a deceive inspirational recipe for his play. I refer agreement the manual labor of Moonlight Solidarity bring in «a opener moment put it to somebody Nigerian auditorium practice »: in maxim this I do classify wish command somebody to claim sustenance this surpass a prominence which knock down might categorize sustain (though it psychoanalysis an fully attractive categorize of work). What I am suggesting, rather, in your right mind that comport yourself taking Drivel Solidarity existing surveying rocket in picture context reveal the auditorium practice break into its site and patch, we gather together provide ourselves with a relatively intimately focussed timeconsuming through which to relate questions languish form humbling ideology uncover the African theatre. I am suggesting that -because of description specific surroundings under which this sport was devised, and due to of picture specific theater its inventor adopted -a study appreciated Moonshine Concord allows farsighted insight smart opportunities, cruxes and contradictions that were, and tarry, central resume Nigerian auditorium practice.1

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