Hamilton Books
Pages: 490
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-6937-5 • Paperback • August 2017 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
978-0-7618-6938-2 • eBook • August 2017 • $57.00 • (£44.00)
After studying and teaching drama and theatre arts at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria; Iyorwuese Hagher retired as Professor of Theater and Drama and Chair, department of Theater and Film at the University of Jos Nigeria. Hagher is World famous for his seminal study of the Kwagh-hir Theater. He was Senator, Minister and Ambassador of Nigeria to Mexico and Canada. He lives in Dayton Ohio, where he is President African leadership Institute and works [volunteers] at the Victoria Theater/Schuster Centre. He is author of many books including: The Kwagh-hir Theater, Nigeria after the Nightmare, Diverse but not Broken, and A Day in Mexico City and other poems.
Hagher x-rays with avid passion and commitment in his plays, the essence of social rebirth, and social regeneration.
— Olu Obafemi, PhD, President National Academy of Letters
In this Fifteen Plays, the craft and grit of Prof. Hagher’s talent and dramaturgy are for the first time in an extraordinary forty-one year career brought together in one massive frame. The fifteen plays of the collection do not just call us as witnesses to the depth and gift of Hagher’s literary penmanship and political activism, they ask us to sit back and enjoy the vast pleasure of an astonishing literary imagination.
— Obiwu, Ph.D, Central State University, Ohio
Iyorwuese Hagher’s plays in this collection bear a bold and ingenious stamp of idealism in the interface of drama with popular culture and politics. By incorporating Kwagh-hir symbolism and themes in his plays, Hagher has become an important world literary genre innovator. His plays are characterized by unending endings and subliminal ambiguity.
— Emmanuel Dandaura, PhD, FSONTA, President International Association of Theater Critics, Nigeria
Hagher’s plays in this volume capture his dramatic essence as advocate of social justice. His plays express disgust at public corruption, hypocrisy and mendacity. He is master of sublimation where his plays leave the theater and follow the spectator home. They provide common ground between utopia and dystopia.
— Sunny Ododo, PhD, FSONTA, President Society of Nigerian Theater Artists. Chair Department of Theater Arts, University of Maiduguri