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Femi Osofisan

FEMI OSOFISAN  

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 Altine's Wrath         Another Raft         Aringindin And The Nightwatchmen         Birthdays Are Not For Dying         Chattering And The Song, The         Esu And The Vagabond Minstrels         Farewell To A Cannibal Rage         Many Colors Make the Thunder-King         Midnight Hotel         Morountodun         No More The Wasted Breed         Odudwa, Don't Go!         Once Upon Four Robbers         Oriki Of A Grasshopper, The         Red Is The Freedom Road         Reel, Rwanda         Restless Run Of Locusts, A         Trojan Women, The         Twingle-Twangle A-Twynning Tayle         Who's Afraid Of Solarin?         Women Of Owu         You Have Lost Your Fine Face         Yunga-Yunga And The Dance Contest

Altine's Wrath

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televised 1983

1st Produced:
Ibadan    1983

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1st Published:
in "Two Short Plays", New Horn Press, Ibadan, 1986   -

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Another Raft

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1989

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1st Published:
Malthouse Press, Lagos, 1990   -

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Aringindin And The Nightwatchmen

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1989

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1st Published:
Heinemann Educational, Ibadan, 1992   -

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Birthdays Are Not For Dying

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1981

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1st Published:
Evans, Ibadan, 1987   -

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Chattering And The Song, The

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1974

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1st Published:
Ibadan University Press, 1977   -

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Esu And The Vagabond Minstrels

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1st Produced:
Benin City    1984

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1st Published:
New Horn Press, Ibadan, 1987   -

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Farewell To A Cannibal Rage

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1978

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1st Published:
Evans, Ibadan, 1986   -

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Many Colors Make the Thunder-King

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World Premiere

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Midnight Hotel

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1982

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1st Published:
Evans, Ibadan, 1986   -

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Morountodun

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1979

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1st Published:
in "Morountodum and Other Plays", Longman, Ikeja, 1982   -

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No More The Wasted Breed

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1982

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1st Published:
in "Morountodum and Other Plays", Longman, Ikeja, 1982   -

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Odudwa, Don't Go!

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1968

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Once Upon Four Robbers

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1978

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1st Published:
BIO, Ibadan, 1982   -

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Oriki Of A Grasshopper, The

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1981

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1st Published:
in "Two Short Plays", New Horn Press, Ibadan, 1986   -

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Red Is The Freedom Road

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1974

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1st Published:
in "Morountodum and Other Plays", Longman, Ikeja, 1982   -

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Reel, Rwanda

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Short Play One Act

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Restless Run Of Locusts, A

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1st Produced:
Akure    1970

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1st Published:
Onibonoje Press, Ibadan, 1975   -

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Trojan Women, The

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British and Nigerian black actors and musicians tackle this perennial struggle of women in times of war. Tough and resilient, the Trojan Women carry the future generations within their bodies, nurture and raise them, and then bearwitness to the tragedy of these same children, now grown, returning to savage their nearest kin. A fresh new interpretation of this classic Greek tragedy by Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria's leading writers.

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Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
Salisbury Playhouse, UK (Revival)    2004

Organisations:
Collective Artists

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Twingle-Twangle A-Twynning Tayle

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1988

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1st Published:
Longman, Lagos, 1992   -

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Who's Afraid Of Solarin?

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1977

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1st Published:
Scholars Press, Calabar, 1978   -

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Women Of Owu

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set in Nigeria in 1821, it places the action of Euripides' 2,100 year old drama outside the walls of the vanquished city of Owu, where the queen, Erelu Afin, mourns with her women over the death of their sons and husbands, and over their own fate of slavery and sexual servitude.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
The Theatre, Chipping Norton, UK    2004

Organisations:
Collective Artistes

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Genre:
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You Have Lost Your Fine Face

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1969

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Yunga-Yunga And The Dance Contest

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1st Produced:
Ibadan    1990

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1st Published:
Heinemann Educational, Ibadan, 1992   -

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