AMONG theater practitioners and students in Southeastern Nigeria, Greg Mbajiorgu stands out for a lot of causes:
Firstly, he could be thought-about the forerunner of solo dramatic literature in Africa as he was the primary African to publish a solo dramatic textual content.
Secondly, he’s not solely the primary from the South East to improvise a full solo efficiency, but in addition one of many very first playwrights from that area of Nigeria to publish a drama on local weather change (Get up Everybody) and Poetics of Environmental Consciousness (Plastics, Plastics in all places)
Third, he’s co-editor of Africa's first textbook on Solo Efficiency (50 Years of Solo Performing Artwork in Nigerian Theater 1966-2016), edited by Amanze Akpuda.
Mbajiorgu can also be the only editor of one other historic textual content in that subgenre of dramatic arts (The Energy of One: An Anthology of Nigerian Solo Performs).
As well as, he wrote and produced a drama for the presidency in regards to the nation's electrical energy crises (In the direction of a New Daybreak), which was staged in 2010 on the Aso Rock Villa banquet corridor for Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
In 2014, he collaborated with Prof. Binebai on the script of a pro-innovation drama for the Swiss African Innovation Basis. The play 'Dancers from Africa' was first printed in 2014 and is being reissued this yr. It’s important to say right here that 'Get up Everybody', his play on local weather change, was commissioned in 2009 by ATPS Nairobi, Kenya, and first produced as 'Wake Up' earlier than being rewritten and reissued in 2011 . , 2014 and 2021 respectively.
Mbajiorgu, Head of the Division of Theater and Movie Research, College of Nigeria, Nsukka, has gained quite a few notable awards. One other feather was added to his cap through the Abuja Worldwide Theater Pageant (ABITFA) on November 5 on the Brazilian Embassy Theater the place he acquired the ABITFA Particular Recognition Award for his unique contribution to the event of theater in Africa.
Different key contributors to the theater trade who acquired awards on the annual occasion had been Governor Abiodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State, Edgar Joseph, President of the Duke of Shomolu Basis, Ekiti State Commissioner for Arts, Tradition and Inventive Economic system, Prof. Bakare Ojo Rasaki, and Ms. Ayo Jaiyesinmi of Thespian Household Theater Manufacturing.
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