Contents

pp v-vii

Notes on Contributors

pp viii-x

Obituary of Pat Amadu Maddy

pp xi-xiii

Introduction

pp xiv-xvi

Reading & Performing African Drama: How Wole Soyinka & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o influenced my work

pp 1-7

Ayan Contra Ujamaa: Soyinka & Ngũgĩ as theatre theorists

pp 8-14

Encounters with Soyinka

pp 15-16

I - Working with Wole Soyinka

pp 17-23

II - The Difficulties of a Neophyte Staging Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy

pp 24-28

III - Pentecostalizing Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero

pp 29-31

IV - The Lion & the Jewel in Mombasa

pp 32-34

Encounters with Ngugi

pp 35-36

I - Choru wa Mũirũrĩ: Reflections on the Kamĩrĩĩthũ experience

pp 37-41

II - Producing I Will Marry When I Want in South Africa

pp 42-47

III - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The unrecognized Black Hermit

pp 48-52

IV - Kamĩrĩĩthũ in Retrospect

pp 53-59

Wole Soyinka & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Plays in Production

pp 60-76

The Making of The Trial of Dedan Kĩmathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o & Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo at the University of California, Irvine: A personal reflection

pp 77-92

Playscript: A Rain of Stones

pp 93-109

Book Reviews

pp 110-128