Browsing by Author "Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice"

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    Audience Study as Catalyst in Sustainable Nollywood Yoruba Film Industry
    (Yorùbá Studies Review, 2020-11) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    Nollywood is the representation of the socio-cultural apparatus of Nigeria in the world cinema. This paper evaluates generally, film audience’s perspec- tive in Nollywood films, and in particular non-native actors in native films. Most often, stakeholders in the film industry do not access, or are flagrantly ignorant of viewer’s feedback on the state of their production in all media of communication. Some determine this with the profit margins. This paper therefore evaluates the audience’s perception of non-native actors in Nolly- wood Yoruba native films. The area of concentration is on the quality of au- dience reception on native films by non-native actors. Cluster sample method is the tool of research for this paper, in which questionnaire samples were dis- tributed among film viewers in the Yoruba speaking area in Nigeria. This is done in order to determine the performance ratings of non-Yoruba native ac- tor’s skill of character interpretation in cultured films. Theoretical framework is anchored on Bandura’s Social Learning theory, which concentrates on im- pact of artistic models on the audience’s psyche. Findings reveal that audience ratings of non-native actors in Yoruba cultured films is poor, compared with their characterization in non-native setting, and this is due to wrong casting by directors who cast them against all odds in order to improve their profit margin. Findings also reveal the importance of audience study as a necessity in pre-production considerations of film shooting.
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    Children and Drama in Education: A Perspective on Mono and Solo Dramatic Performance
    (RUN Journal Of Cultural Studies, 2018) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    Solo and mono performances are not very regular art forms in today's performance experience. However, the ability to perform as it were may have been imbued in everyone especially from birth. Consequently, the ability to develop this innate quality is enhanced by one's capacity to engage in constant practice. This paper espouses that a child who self-performs continuously in private, also undergoes immense self-criticism to acquire sufficient boldness to perform solo in the presence of adults. It also finds that during mono performance(s), children stutter and through such failures they learn to overcome both personal and societal obstacles in life. Thus, children who spontaneously enact actions in front of adults had gone through both emotional and physical catharsis as they self-rehearse in the privacy of their acting space
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    Costume Design, Challenges and Prospects in Olu Obafemi's Ajon Motif
    (Sino-US English Teaching,, 2010-10) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    The Ajon festival of the people of Kogi State has been a focal point of inspiration and an insight into the writings of Obafemi. Yet, the most impressive aspect of the performance that caught his attention as a youth in his hometown was the colourful use of costumes and beautiful elaborate colors for spectacle during Ajon festival. His interest, however, transcends his youthful fancy to include his exotic and adventurous experimentation in the construction of plots and scenery in his plays. This paper focuses on the intricacies and exposes the prospects a costume designer would undertake in designing for Obafemi's plays, especially because of his underlining eye for the motif of Ajon as seen in his works. The Nights of a Mystical Beast (2005) is used here to X-ray his experimentation and attempts to delve in recreating the spectacle in Ajon festival.
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    Crossroads
    (Bookminds Publishers, 2017) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
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    Form and Meaning in the Design of Sam Ukala's Plays: Break a Boil and Akpakaland Considered
    (The Department of Theatre Arts University of Abuja, Nigeria, 2007-06) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
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    From 'Folkism' to Performance: A New Scenic Strategy for Audience Integration
    (Ejotmas: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 2013-09) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    The performances of plays based on 'Folkism' are not accessible to the general audience due to the kind of staging techniques used for the performances of these plays. Instead Of attaining total audience integration, the audience is alienated and estranged because of a natural gulf that exists in the proscenium theatre. This gulf prevents complete rapport between the audience and the actors contrary to the level of response required for performances of plays based on 'Folkism'. This article employs the analytical and artistic methodology in its approach at a critical analysis of Akpakaland (a play based on 'Folkism) and proposes the use of an environmental space for the performance of plays based on 'Folkism' It is hoped that the environmental space will facilitate and enhance the natural communication process that exist between the actors and audience.
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    Insecurities and Social Media: Sociodrama as a Socio-Therapeutic Alternative
    (University of Uyo Journal of Cultural Research, 2019-06) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    In the last one and a half decade, there has been a massive proliferation of social media use as well as an astronomical surge in the numbers of people with access to handheld and tabletop gadgets. While a dramatic reporting of news bordering on insecurity has become commonplace as shown in the information disseminated through these media, the reality is no doubt, as frightful as these social spaces convey. How much of a haven can citizens pretend to have when physical assaults, cannibalism, extrajudicial killings, and terrorism are the order of the day? This paper shall explore commonplace social media dramatic reports that border on societal insecurities, insurgencies, and inhuman behaviours replete in every social media platforms. The paper argues that attendant humanistic tendencies that drive people to share and comment on these recurrent social vices, vis-à-vis corresponding responses by concerned individuals, NGOs and government agencies have driven the multiplier effect of communal and socio-therapeutic gains. This paper, therefore, proposes a systematic virtual therapy, based on Morello's theory of sociodrarna to discuss and evaluate spontaneous traumatic news of insecurities in clustered groups within societies.
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    Language Impediment and Polyglot Actors in Yoruba Native Film
    (Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2021-03) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    In the Yoruba Nollywood film industry, there is a crop of non-native actors who are fluent in their native language and also conversant in the Yoruba language. These actors fail to articulate the level of believability in indigenised Yoruba cultural films, due to the linguistic impediment of their native language in the required diction of cultural films. This paper refers to them as polyglots and discusses their inability to acculturate linguistically in culture-based films through characterisation, diction, gesticulations and socio-cultural nuances. This paper, therefore, explores the inadequacy of language delivery due to linguistic impediment of the native language of select polyglot actors in Yoruba Nollywood films as a hindrance to adequate interpretation of Yoruba language. Three non- native actors in native Yoruba films were studied, and their linguistic performances were content analysed in line with the impediment of their mother tongue. The paper adopts the Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura, which identifies the impact of language on the audience, and sees the actor as a part of models to either elevate or denigrate ethical values of language in society. The research is premised on Qualitative method of research in analysing the visual film materials to identify linguistic strength and deficiency of the Yoruba language in performance. Findings show that actors who underplay nativity through language undervalue linguistic appreciation of the audience, and also reduce the cultural values the films are meant to propagate.
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    Language in African Dramatic Literature: The Example of Ola Rotimi's If... A Tragedy of the Ruled
    (Ejotmas Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts, 2010) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    This paper discusses the use of language in African Dramatic Literature and identifies the controversy over the choice of a most appropriate language to be used by African playwrights and also X-rays the solution to language problem as proffered by prominent dramatic scholars. These solutions are then narrowed to Ola Rotimi and his experiment with the English Language. The effectiveness of a new brand of English language is also discussed in the area of characterization and audience receptiveness of Ola Rotimi's works and how this is achieved in 1f...A Tragedy of the Ruled.
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    Modeling the Total Man in Traditional Farming Practice: A Spartial-Dramatic Analysis of Folkloric Farming Songs
    (Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    There are numerous forms of education in Africa societies with many deeply rooted in traditional vocations. A reassessment of the dramatic elements of some inspirational music in traditional farming practice reveals a continuous and emphatic value added technique in occupational farming. One of the least documented to date is nofiofio; employed as a stress free, work-play group farming technique known for speed and efficiency. This rejuvenated ancient guide employs dramatic techniques driven by instructive moral folk music. Findings reveal that nofiofio encourages occupational discipline, family cohesion and social bond toward occupational engagements. Although such folk music is no longer used in cotemporary farming practice but newer forms of youth music have. A reflection on their uses in the past has risen in recent times. Nofiofio in particular encouraged moral and strong character building among the youth population involved in traditional farming. This paper analyses the dramatic content of this popular farming music in Edo State of Nigeria for planting and harvesting. The study shows a structured and efficient matrix for time management, motivation and increased output.
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    Oral Tradition in Children Education: A Systematic Approach with Educational Drama
    (Nigerian Journal of Oral Literature, 2014-08) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    The age-long tradition of impacting and preserving traditional culture, norms and values through oral tradition is gradually disappearing into thin air with the advent of transcultural development, exposure to foreign media of communication, influx of alternative entertainment and social media platforms. Whereas we secretly crave for our children to embrace our traditional values, the means of transference has perpetually eluded ever busy career-driven urban parents who themselves hardly enjoyed the lore of oral tradition. This paper espouses a performance approach that relies on a process-based technique in impacting children using the basic principles of educational drama. This paper shall therefore propose a bridge of oral traditions using the techniques that abound in educational drama to inculcate basic traditional values lacking in modern family life through school curriculum.
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    Oral Tradition in Children Education: A Systematic Approach with Educational Drama
    (Nigerian Journal of Oral Literatures, 2014-08) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    The age-long tradition of impacting and preserving traditional culture, norms and values through oral tradition is gradually disappearing into thin air with the advent of transcultural development, exposure to foreign media of communication, influx of alternative entertainment and social media platforms. Whereas we secretly crave for our children to embrace our traditional values, the means of transference has perpetually eluded ever busy career-driven urban parents who themselves hardly enjoyed the lore of oral tradition. This paper espouses a performance approach that relies on a process-based technique in impacting children using the basic principles of educational drama. This paper shall therefore propose a bridge of oral traditions using the techniques that abound in educational drama to inculcate basic traditional values lacking in modern family life through school curriculum.
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    Performing African Theatre in Literary and Popular Performance Spaces
    (Alpha Crownes Publishers, 2012) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    African theatre existed in many places except in enclosed buildings. In the last few decades, theatre practitioners and researchers all over the world are gradually moving away from 'theatre buildings' in the quest for a newer space other than an enclosure. Whereas African theatre had moved, in the same period, from 'the round', 'shrine', 'road path', 'market square', etc., to its present literary space. This chapter looks at the various places and spaces that are invisible yet accessible through the stages of African literary theatre tradition
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    The Quest and the King of Okaka
    (Kraft Books Limited, 2017) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
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    Space as a Philosophical and Psychological Entity in Sam Ukala's Placenta of Death
    (Journal of the Humanities University of Maiduguri Faculty of Arts, 2007) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
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    Spaces in Places of Theatre Performance
    (Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC), 2012) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    Space in relation to performance has been a paramount subject in recent theatre practice and academic discourse. This is owing to the indispensable nature of space to performance. The actor, audience and a space to perform have been the three essentials of every performance, be it the conventional theatre, festival, ritual, etc. Although space is concrete and visible, there are other intangible spaces of the performance environment that often interact with the immediate place of performance during a performance process. This paper espouses other forms of space that are not readily visible but yet exist in places of performance and contribute immensely in enhancing the overall impact of a performance experience.
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    Teaching Educational Drama in Primary and Secondary Schools with Costume and Props as Visual Aids
    (Journal of Theatre Design and Technology, 2017) Uwadinma-Idemudia, Eunice
    Costume and props are vital aspects of educational drama. In Nigeria, the concept and possibilities of educational drama has not been utilized beyond the theoretical postulations of its possibilities. Whereas through educational drama new theories and frontiers have been propounded to enhance learning, as well as advance both the sociological and psychological development of children. While the trend in most academic spaces where Educational drama is thought still views and utilises drama as a simplistic entertainment medium. In this paper, Costumes and props are discussed as possible enhancement in the teaching of educational drama across curriculum. The paper finds that it is not just enough to deploy drama in both teaching and interrogating subjects in primary and secondary schools, but that, in using costume and props as visual aids, teachers and pupils are better engaged both intellectually and visually to the extent of enhancing interpersonal relationships amongst them