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Ghana's Concert Party TheatreCatherine M. ColeAn engaging history of Ghana's enormously popular . Catherine M. Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ghana's Concert Party TheatreCatherine M. ColeAn engaging history of Ghana's enormously popular concert party theatre. succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues. Karin BarberUnder colonial rule, the first concert party practitioners brought their comic variety shows to audiences throughout what was then the British Gold Coast colony.

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Ghana's Concert Party Theatre more. Under colonial rule, the first concert party practitioners brought their comic variety shows to audiences throughout what was then the British Gold Coast colony.

the concert party of Ghana, a twentieth-century traveling popular theatre, a comic variety show that combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, including, but not limited to, Al Jolson, American movies, Anansesem (Ghanaian spider stories ), highlife music, African-American.

the concert party of Ghana, a twentieth-century traveling popular theatre, a comic variety show that combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, including, but not limited to, Al Jolson, American movies, Anansesem (Ghanaian spider stories ), highlife music, African-American spirituals, and others in which there is no literary text but there is most definitely a performance text?

Catherine M. Cole, Professor of Drama and Divisional Dean of the Arts at the University of Washington, is the author of Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission: Stages of Transition (2010), Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre (2001), and Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice.

Catherine M. Cole, Professor of Drama and Divisional Dean of the Arts at the University of Washington, is the author of Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission: Stages of Transition (2010), Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre (2001), and Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice (forthcoming 2020).

Ghana's Concert Party Theatre. Professor Catherine M Cole. As social and political circumstances shifted through the colonial period and early years of Ghanaian independence, concert party actors demonstrated a remarkable responsiveness to changing social roles and volatile political situations as they continued to stage this extremely popular form of entertainment. Cole is Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies . More books by Catherine M. Cole. Cole is Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

The National Theatre was opened in 1992 to spearhead the Theatre movement in Ghana by providing a multi-functional venue for concerts, dance, drama and musical performances, screen plays, exhibitions and special events. In Ghana, theatre as an artistic form has existed for centuries in the traditional dramatic expressions of society,however, the National Theatre Movement (NTM) was conceived around the time of Ghana’s independence in 1957 to help remold the new nation’s cultural identity.

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