Jane Plastow
Biographic Data
| ID | 167370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Plastow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Plastow |
| SIGNATURE | PLASTOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0788-5804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speaking to Power
In the context of consistently poor provision of state maternity services to impoverished women in western Kenya over many decades, this article discusses the use of arts in relation to researching subaltern perspectives and enabling subaltern voices to be heard by the powerful. The argument is made that behaviour change agendas are almost always top down, while requirements for the authorities to engage with subaltern voices are minimal and freq…
A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2
A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1
Cine-Ethiopia
Ngugi
African Theatre 16
A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners.
Intergenerational Community-Based Research and Creative Practice
This article critically reflects on the methodological approach developed for a recent project based in Jinja, Uganda, that sought to generate new forms of environmental knowledge and action utilizing diverse forms of creative intergenerational practice embedded within a broader framework of community-based participatory research. This approach provided new opportunities for intergenerational dialogue in Jinja, generated increased civic environme…
Teatro Asmara
This paper looks at the history of the oldest theatre in Eritrea, Cinema or Teatro Asmara, and seeks to understand how the theatre has been seen and used by its multiple owners and users from 1918 to the present day. Eritrea has had a complex modern history, being ruled from Italy, Britain and Ethiopia before achieving independence in 1991, and each government has had an uneasy relationship with culture, seeking to varying degrees to control and …
Staging Ghana
Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 364 + xx pages. This is an ethnographic study of the two Ghanaian national dance ensembles—the Ghana Dance Ensemble (GDE) and its offshoot the National Dance Company (NDC
African Theatre 14
African Theatre 12
Drama for Development
African Theatre 9
The First African Play
Theatre Matters
Practising for the revolution? The influence of Augusto Boal in Brazil and Africa
Finding children's voices
This article deals with a British Academy funded pilot project carried out in December 2005 and January 2006 involving six primary schools in Eritrea. The project was led by the author, Jane Plastow, a Theatre for Development academic and practitioner, and John Holmes, an educationalist. Both partners work at Leeds University and have involvement with Eritrea dating back to soon after its independence in 1991. We worked with five Eritrean colleag…
African theatre and the University of Leeds
This paper discusses the impact that teaching and research on African theatre in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds’ School of English may have had in Africa and elsewhere. After surveying the productivity and influence of the Workshop Theatre to the present, the authors ask if they have contributed meaningfully to the development, the promotion, and the excellence of African theatre. In addition, the authors question if the Leeds Un…
African Theatre
Editorial Jane Plastow - 'I will not cry': women's theatre in the Algerian diaspora by Laura Chakravarty Box - Challenging the master: resisting 'male' virtues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis in the theatre of Tawfik al-Hakim & Nawal al-Sa'dawi by Dina Amin - Of Suwa houses & singing contests: early urban performers in Asmara, Eritrea by Christine Matzke - Contextualising women's theatre in Kenya: Mboya's Otongolia & Mwachofie's Mama ee by M…
Shakespeare and Africa
Shakespeare's work reached Africa no later than it reached the most distant parts of his own country. In 1607 there are reports of performances of Hamlet and Richard II by British sailors off the coast of Sierra Leone. This hardly raised the floodgates of performance, but in 1800 the African Theatre – an amateur theatre set up in Cape Town, South Africa, by the soldiers of the British garrison – opened with a performance of I Henry IV , and since…
African Theatre and Politics
African Theatre and Politics
This study, the first book-length treatment of its subject, draws on a large base of elusive material and on extensive field research. It is the result of the author's wide experience of teaching and producing theatre in Africa, and of her fascination with the ways in which traditional performance forms have interacted with, or have resisted, non-indigenous modes of dramatic representation in the process of evolving into the vital theatres of the…
Intergenerational Community-Based Research and Creative Practice
This article critically reflects on the methodological approach developed for a recent project based in Jinja, Uganda, that sought to generate new forms of environmental knowledge and action utilizing diverse forms of creative intergenerational practice embedded within a broader framework of community-based participatory research. This approach provided new opportunities for intergenerational dialogue in Jinja, generated increased civic environme…
A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2
Ngugi
Teatro Asmara
This paper looks at the history of the oldest theatre in Eritrea, Cinema or Teatro Asmara, and seeks to understand how the theatre has been seen and used by its multiple owners and users from 1918 to the present day. Eritrea has had a complex modern history, being ruled from Italy, Britain and Ethiopia before achieving independence in 1991, and each government has had an uneasy relationship with culture, seeking to varying degrees to control and …
Staging Ghana
Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 364 + xx pages. This is an ethnographic study of the two Ghanaian national dance ensembles—the Ghana Dance Ensemble (GDE) and its offshoot the National Dance Company (NDC
Practising for the revolution? The influence of Augusto Boal in Brazil and Africa
African Theatre and Politics
This study, the first book-length treatment of its subject, draws on a large base of elusive material and on extensive field research. It is the result of the author's wide experience of teaching and producing theatre in Africa, and of her fascination with the ways in which traditional performance forms have interacted with, or have resisted, non-indigenous modes of dramatic representation in the process of evolving into the vital theatres of the…
African Theatre and Politics
Shakespeare and Africa
Shakespeare's work reached Africa no later than it reached the most distant parts of his own country. In 1607 there are reports of performances of Hamlet and Richard II by British sailors off the coast of Sierra Leone. This hardly raised the floodgates of performance, but in 1800 the African Theatre – an amateur theatre set up in Cape Town, South Africa, by the soldiers of the British garrison – opened with a performance of I Henry IV , and since…
African Theatre
Editorial Jane Plastow - 'I will not cry': women's theatre in the Algerian diaspora by Laura Chakravarty Box - Challenging the master: resisting 'male' virtues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis in the theatre of Tawfik al-Hakim & Nawal al-Sa'dawi by Dina Amin - Of Suwa houses & singing contests: early urban performers in Asmara, Eritrea by Christine Matzke - Contextualising women's theatre in Kenya: Mboya's Otongolia & Mwachofie's Mama ee by M…
African theatre and the University of Leeds
This paper discusses the impact that teaching and research on African theatre in the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds’ School of English may have had in Africa and elsewhere. After surveying the productivity and influence of the Workshop Theatre to the present, the authors ask if they have contributed meaningfully to the development, the promotion, and the excellence of African theatre. In addition, the authors question if the Leeds Un…
Finding children's voices
This article deals with a British Academy funded pilot project carried out in December 2005 and January 2006 involving six primary schools in Eritrea. The project was led by the author, Jane Plastow, a Theatre for Development academic and practitioner, and John Holmes, an educationalist. Both partners work at Leeds University and have involvement with Eritrea dating back to soon after its independence in 1991. We worked with five Eritrean colleag…
Theatre Matters
Practising for the revolution? The influence of Augusto Boal in Brazil and Africa
African Theatre 9
The First African Play
Drama for Development
African Theatre 12
African Theatre 14
Staging Ghana
Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 364 + xx pages. This is an ethnographic study of the two Ghanaian national dance ensembles—the Ghana Dance Ensemble (GDE) and its offshoot the National Dance Company (NDC
African Theatre 16
A collection of playscripts and texts that give an English-reading audience access to key plays as well as less well-known and previously untranslated works - a superb resource for scholars and theatre practitioners.
Intergenerational Community-Based Research and Creative Practice
This article critically reflects on the methodological approach developed for a recent project based in Jinja, Uganda, that sought to generate new forms of environmental knowledge and action utilizing diverse forms of creative intergenerational practice embedded within a broader framework of community-based participatory research. This approach provided new opportunities for intergenerational dialogue in Jinja, generated increased civic environme…
Teatro Asmara
This paper looks at the history of the oldest theatre in Eritrea, Cinema or Teatro Asmara, and seeks to understand how the theatre has been seen and used by its multiple owners and users from 1918 to the present day. Eritrea has had a complex modern history, being ruled from Italy, Britain and Ethiopia before achieving independence in 1991, and each government has had an uneasy relationship with culture, seeking to varying degrees to control and …
Ngugi
Cine-Ethiopia
A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1
Speaking to Power
In the context of consistently poor provision of state maternity services to impoverished women in western Kenya over many decades, this article discusses the use of arts in relation to researching subaltern perspectives and enabling subaltern voices to be heard by the powerful. The argument is made that behaviour change agendas are almost always top down, while requirements for the authorities to engage with subaltern voices are minimal and freq…
A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2
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