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Wole Soyinka

WOLE SOYINKA   (1934 - )

Nationality:   Nigerian    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Susan Steiger  

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Plays by Wole Soyinka

WOLE SOYINKA

Bacchae, The

1st Produced:

London

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Eyre Methuen, London, 1973

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Communion Rite

Parts:

Male

7

Female

1

Parts other:

chorus

Notes:

Original Playwright - Euripides

Synopsis:

depicts the turbulent arrival of the Dionysiac religion in Greece

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Beatification Of Area Boy: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope, The

1st Produced:

Courtyard, West Yorkshire

1995

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1995

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

15

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undesirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place.

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Before the Blackout

1st Produced:

Ibadan

1965

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Orisun, Ibadan, 1971

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Camwood On the Leaves

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1973

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#32860

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

broadcast 1960

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Childe Internationale

1st Produced:

- - -

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#32861

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Dance of the Forests, A

1st Produced:

Nigerian Independence Celebrations, Lagos

1960

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Oxford University Press, Ibadan, 1963

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

African Play Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

14

Female

3

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Death and the King's Horseman

1st Produced:

Ife-Ife

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1975

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

3

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Based on real events that took place in Oyo, the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's play tells how Simon Pilkings, a well-meaning District Officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide demanded by the death of the King. There follow drastic repercussions in both indigenous and colonial communities.

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

From Zia With Love

1st Produced:

- - -

1992

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#32864

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

18

Female

3

Parts other:

m/f 7

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Confusion and fear permeate society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison. 'From Zia With Love' is based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Golden Accord, The

1st Produced:

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, Inc. in More Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Short Play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

part of The American Project: a compendium of short plays

Synopsis:

A couple wins a game show prize when the husband breaks a very private trust. The wife responds with vengeance

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Invention, The

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>>

01 Nov 1959

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

satirical play

Parts:

Male

11

Female

2

Parts other:

voices

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

South African scientists experiment with chemicals to attain a final solution to the race problem.

Further Reference:

Wearing 59.238


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WOLE SOYINKA

Jero's Metemorphosis

1st Produced:

Lagos

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "The Jero Plays", Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1964

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

10

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The Trials Of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

King Baabu

1st Produced:

Augustine's, Edinburgh Festival

2003

Company:

Over the Edge Theatre Company, Zimbabwe

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2002

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#32868

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

22

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Spit-roasted giraffes, cross-dressing soldiers, alcoholic civil servants and a dash of looting and torture for dessert. Another fine day in African democracy. Zimbabwe's acclaimed company premieres Nobel Laureate Wolf Soyinka's hysterical re-imagining of Jarry's Ubu Roi. Madness reigns!

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Kongi's Harvest

1st Produced:

Ibadan

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Oxford University Press, Ibadan, 1967

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

African Play Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

7

Female

2

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Lion and the Jewel, The

1st Produced:

Ibadan

1959

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Oxford University Press, Ibadan, 1963

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

African Play Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

2

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

gloriously depicts African village life

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Madmen and Specialists

1st Produced:

Waterford, Connecticut

1970

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1971

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Opera Wonyosi

1st Produced:

Ife-Ife

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1981

in Soyinka Plays: 1, Methuen Drama, London >>>,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht (Threepenny Opera)

Synopsis:

adpated from Gay''s 'The Beggar''s Opera' and is a fierce assault on totalitarianism

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Play Of Giants, A

1st Produced:

New haven, Connecticut

1984

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Priority Projects

1st Produced:

on Nigeria tour

1982

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Revue Show

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Republican and The New republican, The

1st Produced:

Lagos

1963

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#32875

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Genre:

Satirical revues Satire

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Requiem For a Futurologist

1st Produced:

Ife-Ife

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Collings, London, 1985

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Rites of the Harmattan Solstice

1st Produced:

Lagos

1966

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#32877

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Road, The

1st Produced:

Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London >>>

1965

Company:

Commonwealth Arts Festival

1st Published:

Oxford University Press, Ibadan, 1965

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

8

Female

-

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Scourge of Hyacinths, A

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#77053

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Genre:

radio play Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Confusion and fear permeate society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison.

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Strong Breed, The

1st Produced:

Ibadan

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Three Plays", Mbari, Ibadan, 1963

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#32879

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

7

Female

2

Parts other:

1g extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Swamp Dwellers, The

1st Produced:

London

1958

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Three Plays", Mbari, Ibadan, 1963

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#32880

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

1

Parts other:

drummer, extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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WOLE SOYINKA

Thus Spake Orunmila. . .

1st Produced:

Bush Theatre, Shepherds Bush Green, London W12 8QD >>>

10 Oct 2011

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Oberon Books (2011) >>>

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1849432276

Music:

-

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#133218

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Genre:

piece

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of 2 Samuel

Thus Spake Orunmila. . .

The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance

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Trials of Brother Jero, The

1st Produced:

Ibadan

1960

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Three Plays", Mbari, Ibadan, 1963

in "The Jero Plays", Methuen Drama, London >>>,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#32881

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

5

Female

3

Parts other:

extras

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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