'Residual theatre' is used to refer to mean ritual performances that are still enacted but which have lost their original purpose. Such performances can still be enjoyed and can still play a role in promoting social cohesion and a sense of identity, so long as the performers, and the audience,...

The entertainment industry in its present state, as occasioned by the new wave of technology, is a 'cash cow'. However, most African countries, Nigeria inclusive, are not fully tapping into its great potential to generate the required revenue for their economic growth and development. Anchored on...

The period 1940 to 2011 portrayed Nigeria's literary theatre as being largely irrelevant to its audience, due to the compositional lapses of many English play texts and their stage productions. These loopholes mainly comprise inappropriate and alienating aesthetics of subject matter and language of ...

Dance, culture and marriage have a tapestry of relationship and dependability. The inviolability in their relationships cannot be quantified. In culture, dance and marriage are provided with soothing environment to strive and survive and vice-versa. In other words, culture is the substratum for the ...

To raise awareness and knowledge of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); information, education and communication (IEC) strategies are needed. Entertainment education (EE) uses performing arts and theatre, as form of HIV programming, and is increasingly utilised in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a...

New Nollywood's representation of the social life of Lagos is enacted through Ówàṁbé as a cinematic strategy that underscores the contradictions inherent in the politics of pleasure and materialism. A performative display of wealth expressed through the social drama of partying, as well as wild and ...

Background: The role of music during surgery has been studied, including its effect on theatre staff, users and patients. However, little attention has been paid to its application especially in our environment. Methods: It was a prospective study, involving theatre staff, users, and patients....

Beyond the boundaries of human memory, art has served as a vehicle for the transmission of information and consequently of behaviour modification. This is entrenched in the effects that such art have on any mind: the nebulous stressed mind of the psychopath, the simpleton thought process of the...

In the present political dispensation, efforts have been made to effect reforms in the education of the country. Many moves have been made to put this in place. For these efforts not to be frustrated, we believe that the performing theatre too needs to be reformed-most especially films and home...

In April 2007 Nigeria's Bob TV invited Hollywood's Kisha Imani Cameron as resource person for its Skill Factory Workshop on Film Producing. No sooner had the first session begun that she declared: "There is so much to learn here". Global (and therefore western) techniques of film production were...