Paradigm Shift in African Theatre and Performance: New Media to the Rescue
Kehinde Abimbola Adeniyi
De-Montfort University United Kingdom
Abiodun Babatunde Kafaru
University of Northampton United Kingdom
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In times past, the African theatre performance thrives on stage with its electrifying actions and
ecstatic response of the audience. The responses and the feedback are immediate while the audience
and their emphatic feelings can be seen to generate further actions on stage. All these are not without
its challenges and hazards both to the practitioners and their audience. The new information
explosion age and its associated technological breakthrough in the areas of new media has come to
offer solutions to the myriads of problem and the challenges involved in stage performance for the
practitioners and audience in the past. This paper therefore set out to examine the old practices, its
challenges, the new media and the opportunities it presents. It will also examine the extent to which
the new media have been able to move the African performance forward in the new millennium.
Keywords: Theatre; Performativity; Paradigm; New Media; E Lectifying Actions
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