Wole Oguntokun Reboots Shakespeare

Nigerian playwright Wole Oguntokun has just presented Itan Oginintin, a Yoruba remake of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, at Shakespeare's Globe in London for a festival showing 38 Shakespeare plays in different world languages as part of the London Cultural Olympiad. Quoting Fox News:

For the Lagos-based performers in the Renegade Theatre company, the chance to perform allows them to represent a country whose rich history in the arts has faded under corrupt governments.

"Some time between the '80s and the '90s, I think a bridge collapsed," said Wole Oguntokun, who leads Renegade Theatre. "And now we are all looking for a way across that bridge."

Wole Oguntokun was a facilitator of the Drama and Theatre Workshop at GCLF 2011.