Play Quotes by Wole Soyinka

8 Play quotes by Wole Soyinka

Soyinka’s literary mastery informs his view of play as a vehicle for cultural expression and critique. These eight concise quotes reveal his thoughtful, layered approach to simple enjoyment.

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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry…

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When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so…

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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How…

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For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be…

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I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing…

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With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in…

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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

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I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm…

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

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Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

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The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.

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One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as…

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One has to confront history honestly.

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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War…

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I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

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The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what…

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One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What…

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I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…

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The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not…

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