Christian drama,as a genre, encapsulates the principles, teachings,and moral values inherent in Christianity. It employs religious narratives, Christian ethos, and biblical perspectives to shape its thematic explorations. Saviour Agoro theorizes this type of drama as the Ultimate theatre – a type of theatre about God, the Master Creator and Maker of all things and His relationship with His creatures. This chapter examines the leitmotif of the anagogical which runs through Agoro’s pla...
With over four dozen cultural water festivals, Bayelsa State is one of the most culturally endowed states in Nigeria given its robust attraction for water and cultural tourists. In this paper, we examine the orange economic potentialities of the Odi Ogori ba Uge festival as a tool for ensuring soft power diplomacy in the Niger Delta. We use orange economy as a theoretical premise to argue that the cultural industry in Bayelsa State has comparative advantage for income generation away from oil...
This paper posits community theatre as an agent of change and argues that community theatre possesses the technicalities to bring awareness to the members of a community to the social and cultural issues affecting them via their exploration in drama or performance, thereby causing changes in their mindset, action and socialisation patterns. With a focus on marijuana addiction amongst the youths in Tombia, Ekpetiama, the paper critically analyses the effectiveness of community theatre in mobil...
Niger Delta Drama is an issue based drama affecting the people of the Niger Delta. These issues as environmental degradation and abject poverty that have resulted in continued violence in the region. No writer or drama critic can talk about the Niger Delta Drama without an adequate understanding of the history of the Niger Delta region and its inhabitants. This paper looks into the history of the Niger Delta and its people for the aim of gaining better understanding of a Niger Delta Drama and...
Ebinepre Zibokere is currently a PhD candidate in Niger Delta University where she had her Bachelor and master degree in Theatre Arts. Her research focus is on Theatre and Tourism Studies. Sh
