Helen Gilbert (2) (1956–)
Auteur van Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology
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Helen Gilbert is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-convenor of the College's interdisciplinary Postcolonial Research Group.
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Most important to me was probably Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest, a rare piece of sf drama from India, which has some neat things to say and some dark humor. Other highlights included Wole Soyinka's The Strong Breed (about a man who escapes a village that sacrifices a member of the "strong breed" every year to a village that sacrifices a newcomer every year), Femi Osofisan's Once Upon Four Robbers (about four robbers who gain magical powers), and Girish Karnad's Hayavadana (about two competing men, but with some metatheatrical craziness). It was especially nice to see Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's The Conversion of Kaʻahumanu here, which I saw performed as an undergraduate. (A friend did sound for it.) It was an excellent, even-handed approach to the colonization of Hawaiʻi both then and now.
There were a few lowlights: Maishe Maponya's The Hungry Earth and Briar Grace-Smith's Ngā Pou Wāhine were so surreal and allegorical as to be completely uninvolving, while Jimmy Chi's Bran Nue Dae may or may not have been good-- it's just that musicals make for awful reading. I wasn't very impressed by the Charabanc Theatre Company's Somewhere Over the Balcony; if the editor wanted a darkly humorous Irish play, surely anything by Martin McDonagh would have been more than adequate? Or even Sean O'Casey? And Keen Thuan Chye's 1984 Here and Now reinterpreted Orwell's 1984 in a pretty pointless fashion, if you ask me. But that's not a bad number of misses; most everything else ranged from average to brilliant. As usual, however, I'd really like to see some of these performed. Especially as given the high incidence of unusual stagecraft; I want to know how some of these things would actually look!… (meer)