Soyinka Plays: 2: a Play of Giants; from Zia with Love; a Source of Hyacinths; the Beatification of Area Boy (Contemporary Dramatists) - Wole Soyinka - Books - Bloomsbury Methuen Drama - 9780413732606 - February 4, 1999
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Soyinka Plays: 2: a Play of Giants; from Zia with Love; a Source of Hyacinths; the Beatification of Area Boy (Contemporary Dramatists)

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Soyinka Plays: 2: a Play of Giants; from Zia with Love; a Source of Hyacinths; the Beatification of Area Boy (Contemporary Dramatists)

'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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 4, 1999
ISBN13 9780413732606
Publishers Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Pages 368
Dimensions 129 × 198 × 19 mm   ·   349 g
Language English  

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