Background Info - African Theatre and Yoruba Culture

What are some of the features of African Theatre?

• Music and dance

• Music and Masquerade

• Mime and Dance

• Mime, dance, music and masquerade

For Europeans, African theatre was considered theatre as a result of religious elements in their performances

• True

• False

For Europeans, African theatre was considered theatre as a result of religious elements in their performances

• True

• False

The advent of Colonialism made an impact on African theatre

• True

• False

How was African theatre viewed?

• Precarious

• Savage and inferior

• Ignorant

Writers like Sole Woyinka started to...

• bring together European and African ways of doing theatre

• reject the European influence on theatre

African theatre serves...

• religious and political purposes

• aesthetic reasons

• religious and political purposes as well as it is socially committed

Why does African theatre include dance, music and story-telling?

• Because it is part of the African Theatre's past

• Because still to this day, many Africans are illiterate so they would be unable to access theatre otherwise

• Because it is a way to reject European ways of performance

Who are the Yoruba?

• A religious group

• People from a country in Africa

• A major ethnic group

Name the three states of being...

• Being

• Dying

• Seniors

• Living

• Ancestors