Theatre
New Namibian Plays
Anonymous · 2000
Synopsis
The first volume of an anthology of Namibian theatre, which brings together plays by eleven writers and one company. The plays are not known in detail.
Context
Published in 2000 in Windhoek by New Namibia Books, the publisher of Ellen Ndeshi Namhila's exile narrative, the volume gathers texts by Vickson Tablah Hangula, Kubbe Rispel, Petrus Haakskeen, Dawid Stone Ndjavera, Norman Job, Maria Amakali, Kay Cowley, Tanya Terblanche, Boli Mootseng, Terence Zeeman and Laurinda Olivier-Sampson, as well as by the Bricks Theatre company. The catalogue names no editor for the volume.
Who it is for
For discovering Namibian theatre in English, through the writers who were making it in 2000.
Prizes and reception
No review of the anthology has been found in the catalogues and sources consulted.