Dance of the vampires & six other plays / / Bole Butake

• Autore: Butake Bole
• Pubblicazione: Mankon, : Langaa, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 378p
• Disciplina: 812.59
• Soggetto topico: African drama (English); Vampires
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface One. Tribute to Bole Butake, A Literary Luminary -- Preface Two. Bole Butake - And The Playwright Retires: Cameroon's ace playwright and actor, Prof. Bole Butake talks on his university teaching career as he prepares to retire at the end of this month. -- Part I - Dance of the Vampires -- Dramatis Personae -- First Movement -- Second Movement -- Third Movement -- Fourth Movement -- Fifth Movement -- Sixth Movement -- Part II - Family Saga -- Dramatis Personae -- First Movement -- Second Movement -- Third Movement -- Fourth Movement -- Fifth Movement -- Sixth Movement -- Seventh Movement -- Eighth Movement -- Part III - Lake God -- Dramatis Personae -- Prologue -- Passage -- Part IV - Betrothal without Libation -- Dramatis Personae -- Act One -- Act Two -- Act Three -- Part V - And Palm-wine will Flow -- Dramatis Personae -- Part VI - The Rape of Michelle -- Dramatis Personae -- Scene I -- Scene II -- SCENE III -- Scene IV -- Epilogue -- Part VII - Shoes -- Characters -- The Beginning Was ... -- ...And Never Shall Be Again -- Back cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: This crowning collection brings together seven of Bole Butake�s finest plays since 1984, namely: Dance of the Vampires; Family Saga; Lake God; Betrothal Without Libation; And Palm Wine Will Flow; The Rape of Michelle; and Shoes. More than an academic, Butake has distinguished himself as a playwright, unearthing and foregrounding the ills, travails and predicaments of a land and people trapped by the blood-dripping impunities of vampires in power. In his rich repertoire of over ten plays, Butake takes sides with the downtrodden, the wretched of the earth, the deprived and the underdogs. His jabs and jibes, aimed at the rulers, are scathing, at times vitriolic. He has excelled at a stubborn determination to ignore the sinecures, lure and allure of power without responsibility.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dance of the vampires & six other plays
• ISBN: 9789956790432 : (ebk : EbookCentral)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967441903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II