Danai Gurira

The Convert (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It's 1896 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Jekesai, a young Shona girl, escapes a forced arranged marriage by converting to Christianity and becoming a protégé to an African Evangelical. As anti-colonial sentiments spread throughout the native population, Jekesai is forced to choose between her family's traditions and her newfound faith.

This Student Edition of Danai Gurira's 2012 play The Convert includes a commentary by Aviva Neff.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350366299
• Artikelnr.: 72267909

Autorenporträt

Danai Gurira is an award-winning Zimbabwean American actor and playwright. As a playwright, her works include In The Continuum (OBIE Award, Outer Critics Award, Helen Hayes Award), Eclipsed (NAACP Award; Helen Hayes Award, Best New Play), The Convert (six Ovation Awards, Los Angeles Outer Critics Award), and Familiar, which has its world premiere at Yale Rep in February 2015. All her works explore the subjective African voice. She is the recipient of the Whiting Award, is a former Hodder Fellow, and has been commissioned by Yale Rep, Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons, and the Royal Court. She is currently developing a pilot for HBO. As an actor, she has appeared in the films The Visitor, Mother of George, 3 Backyards, and the television show Treme, among others. She currently plays Michonne on AMC's The Walking Dead. She is the co-founder of Almasi Collaborative Arts, which works to give access and opportunity to the African Dramatic Artist. Danai was born in the US and raised in Zimbabwe by Zimbabwean parents. She holds an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Commentary Playwright Overview of her other works; connection to
Blank Panther Cultural/Historical Context & Themes British Colonialism,
enslavement, the collision of indigenous religions & Catholicism, the loss
and rediscovery of faith, women's rights & gendered hierarchies, war, race,
"civilization" Relationship to other art & literature on colonisation (such
as Nottage's Ruined and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman) Religious
radicalism: then and now Characters Jekesai/"Ester" as a lens for
experiencing the rise of Christian colonialism Mai Tamba's religious
duality Chilford as the "model" convert Place Mashona & Matabeleland /
Rhodesia Language Different forms of language (including Chishona) Language
and culture and its links to politics and identity Play in performance
Costume, music and movement Influences George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
Black Panther Productions and adaptations Overview of production history
and critical casting, including its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre,
Chicago, and the play's place in Kwame Kwei-Armah's inaugural season at the
Young Vic, London PLAY TEXT Notes