Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu —Paraphrase in Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kacke Gotrick (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 82-98 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2008.39.3.82 |
| OpenAlex | W2151130255 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Femi Osofisan's play Women of Owu is a re-reading of Euripides's Women of Troy . Although the play was commissioned for a British production, Osofisan communicates with his compatriots as well. In order to reach both categories of spectators he works with two different semiotic systems. The systems function separately, but for spectators conversant with both systems, they enhance each other. The essay analyzes the 2004 London production and discusses the perception of some hypothetical groups of spectators and the skill with which Osofisan—and the director Chuck Mike—guided the interpretative strategies and so made it possible for the spectators, in spite of their different competences, to see the production as lashing out against mankind's habits of solving conflicts by means of war, be it in the European Athens of antiquity, in the nineteenth-century Yoruba Kingdom of Owu, or in present-day conflicts around the world
Aesthetics · Art · Business · Economics · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Linguistics · Literature · Order (exchange) · Paraphrase · Perception · Production (economics) · Reading (process) · Yoruba · African history and culture studies · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |