African theatre versus Western classics

In his thought-provoking essay “African theatre versus Western classics,” Tunisian writer and cultural critic Hamed Ben Mohamed Mahdawi examines how African artists are responding to the legacy of the Western theatrical canon. Rather than simply rejecting European standards, Mahdawi explores how theatre makers across the African continent creatively appropriate, reinterpret, and transform classical Western texts to forge new forms of expression rooted in local cultural experience...
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