Performing across the Sea: Yoruba Race in Global Space

Bashiru Akande Lasisi

Performing across the Sea: Yoruba Race in Global Space

Bashiru Akande Lasisi * §

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The impact of the staging environment on effectiveness of communication between the performer and the audience has remained contentious. The objective of this paper is to determine the effectiveness of plays about the Yorubas as presented elsewhere in the western world in projecting the Yoruba race. The paper is theoretically grounded on Richard Schechner’s Performance theories and used the documentary approach to sociology of drama to contentanalyze two selected performances in Europe and America. Findings showed that plays with Yoruba socio-cultural background face challenges when being staged in Western world because of its length, cast strength and staging condition which lower their aesthetic values and affect audience interpretation. The paper concluded that utilizing African theatre presentation style could be effective when performing in a foreign land. It therefore recommended its adoption and that cultural promoters should be conversant with the peculiarities of productions that projects Yoruba socio-cultural world-view.

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Bashiru Akande Lasisi. 2014. "Performing across the Sea: Yoruba Race in Global Space". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - C: Sociology & Culture GJHSS-C Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue C4).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

Print ISSN 0975-587X

e-ISSN 2249-460X

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Africa directing drama Performance plays race space stage theatre yoruba

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GJHSS-C Classification FOR Code: 420306

Submission ReceivedDecember 16, 2013
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Accepted January 4, 2014
Published January 15, 2014

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September 13, 2014

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