Margareta Sörenson* Now aged 60, the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) is a senior organisation. However, the Association’s biennial award, the Thalia prize, is a young one – just ten years old. The prize was created out of a
Don Rubin* When asked about African theatre, most theatre critics and scholars would be hard-pressed to name more than one or two playwrights beyond the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka or the anti-apartheid activist Athol Fugard. Both made their
Erika Fischer-Lichte* It is my pleasure and my honour to give the laudatory speech on the occasion of Femi Osofisan receiving the Thalia Prize. Let me begin on a personal note. I am all the more happy about his selection