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The Convert de Danai Gurira

The Convert: Modern Plays

Autor Danai Gurira
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mar 2022
A young Shona girl escapes an arranged marriage by converting to Christianity, becoming a servant and student to an African Evangelical. As anti-European sentiments spread throughout the native population, she is forced to choose between her family's traditions and her newfound faith.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350340879
ISBN-10: 1350340871
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 130 x 210 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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 had its world premiere at Yale Rep in February 2015. All her works explore the subjective African voice.

Caracteristici

The play is long and challenging in its issues and its textual density. For this reason, a version that seeks to demystify some of these more complex elements would be welcomed by teachers.

Cuprins

ChronologyCommentaryPlaywrightOverview of her other works; connection to Blank Panther Cultural/Historical Context & ThemesBritish 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 nowCharactersJekesai/"Ester" as a lens for experiencing the rise of Christian colonialismMai Tamba's religious dualityChilford as the "model" convertPlaceMashona & Matabeleland / RhodesiaLanguageDifferent forms of language (including Chishona)Language and culture and its links to politics and identityPlay in performanceCostume, music and movementInfluencesGeorge Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion Black PantherProductions and adaptationsOverview 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, LondonPLAY TEXTNotes

Recenzii

A work considering questions of racial, political and religious identity and assimilation with a provocative intelligence
Ms. Gurira ... chronicles the human cost of this turbulent history with impressive clarity and thoroughness ... Of course, [she] has the perspective of a hundred and more years of history to draw on in dramatizing the moral and ethical issues involved in the missionary impulse, and its alliance with the forces of colonization. It is to her credit that she rarely allows The Convert to devolve into an admonishing tract. There is sympathy in her depiction of all the play's characters, who cannot see how powerless they are to control their own fates. Believers in the old ways or adherents of the new, they are united in being caught in the grip of forces larger than themselves.