Pinter Centre Event: Beyond the Linear Narrative Seminar Strand

Third event in the seminar strand led by Dr Osita Okagbue

Dr. Osita okagbue and The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing are delighted to announce the third event in our strand on African Diasporic Theatre and Performance. As part of the three year AHRC –funded project ‘Beyond the Linear Narrative’
Entitled “Exotics, Visitors, Immigrants and Citizens: Africa on the British Stage” the event will feature three papers by performers, writers and practitioners followed by discussion and refreshments.

The event will be held in the seminar rooms 3/4 of the Ben Pimlott Building on March 17th at 5:30pm.

Please contact b.pester@gold.ac.uk to reserve your place

Presentations will be from

Inua Ellams – 'The 15th Tale: How the centre holds' More information about Performance poet and artist Inua Ellams can be found here: http://www.phaze05.com
Alex OMA-PIUS African Theatre & Culture in British Schools - Alex is the artistic director of Iroko Theatre http://www.irokotheatre.org.uk
Reginald Ofodile - Being an African Actor on the British Stage
Dr Dipo Agboluaje – 'It's as if I'm in Nigeria: Concerns of Writing Nigeria in the UK'

More about the project:

The AHRC is funding a three-year research project which is being led by Professor Robert Gordon as Principal Investigator, Professor Helen Carr as Research Consultant, and Professor Blake Morrison and Dr Osita Okagbue as Co-Investigators. Research will be undertaken by a number of scholars and practitioners working in the departments of Drama and English and Comparative Literature, but there will be creative and critical input from a number of other disciplines. Taking Pinter's work as a starting point for, or symbol of, the fracturing of narrative across many art-forms in twentieth and twenty-first century work, this research project asks a series of questions about the links between inter-cultural and political change and the emergence, or re-emergence, of non-linear and fractured narrative. Focussing on literature and performance, particularly in postcolonial and diasporic contexts, it will ask why non-linear narrative has been such a feature of this period's artistic production. If these fractured and experimental forms are a response to the breakdown of the west's grand narratives of progress, what forms of resistance or revision do they provide? In what ways can they be seen to emerge from the increasing interaction of different cultures in the colonial, post-colonial and post-Cold War world? How do such fractured narratives work in postcolonial and diasporic writing and performance? How can these fractured forms explore our culturally diverse society's competing and conflicting narratives?

Dates & times

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17 Mar 2010	5:30pm - 8:00pm	apple google outlook

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