Ola–Koyi, S. Joseph Bankola
Department of Performing
Arts
Olabisi Onabanjo
University Ago Iwoye
Email: sundayolakoyi@yahoo.com
Abstract
It is on record that
theatre arts had survived over the ages due to its capacity to reinvent by
embracing, new tool and languages, new style and form. It is a fact that when a discipline reinvent
its techniques of impartation and training in line with modern demands, the
standard of performances is enhanced and the quality of the practitioner is
tremendously improved.
Over the years, Nigerian
theatrical performances had gone through many stages (i.e. ritual,
court/church, traditional travelling theatre, professional travelling theatre,
academic drama, radio drama, television drama, celluloid film, and video film),
reinventing itself in order to keep up with the requirement of each era.
In reviewing the essence/spirit
of the 50 years of Theatre in the African academy through the University of
Ibadan experience, which our eminent and erudite Professor Olarinle Bamide is
an integral part of, one could not but to wonder why a film school has not
developed out of the old Ibadan school of drama. Or question why the central
mode of training the theatre artistes in academia stocked to the stage despite
the various innovations that had taken place over the years.
Using a post modernist
theory within an historical perspective and a participatory observation
approach, the paper explored the challenges and prospects of migrating from
stage to video screen in academic training cum practices and offers plausible
solutions to some of the identified problems.
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