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Plays
（Methuen contemporary dramatists）
Methuen Drama, 1999
- 2
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Contents of Works
- 2. A play of giants
- From Zia, with love
- A scourge of hyacinths
- The beatification of Area Boy
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui. From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s.
Table of Contents
- A Play of Giants
- From Zia with Love
- A Source of Hyacinths
- The Beatification of Area Boy
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