Sutherland, Efua

Sutherland, Efua

▪ Ghanaian author
born June 27, 1924, Cape Coast, Gold Coast [now in Ghana]
died Jan. 22, 1996

      Ghanaian playwright, poet, teacher, and children's author, who founded the Drama Studio in Accra (now the Writers' Workshop in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon).

      After completing her studies at the Teacher Training College in Ghana, Sutherland went to England to do further work at Homerton College, Cambridge, and at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Upon her return to Accra, she helped to establish the literary magazine Okyeame, founded the Experimental Theatre, which became the Ghana Drama Studio, and directed the University of Ghana's traveling theatre group. The Drama Studio produced a number of her plays in 1962, including the well-known Edufa (1967), based on Alcestis by Euripides, and Foriwa (1967), a play which stresses the alliance of new ways and old traditions. The Marriage of Anansewa: A Storytelling Drama appeared in 1975.

      Sutherland established the Drama Studio as a workshop for writers who wrote for children. The studio soon became a training ground for Ghanaian playwrights. Sutherland herself wrote several works for children, including two animated rhythm plays, Vulture! Vulture! and Tahinta (both 1968), and two pictorial essays, Playtime in Africa (1960) and The Roadmakers (1961).

      Many of Sutherland's works were broadcast in Ghana on a popular radio program, “The Singing Net,” and most of her unpublished plays were performed by drama groups in Ghana. Many of her short stories can be described as rhythmic prose poems; one of her later plays, Nyamekye, a version of Alice in Wonderland, shows the influence of the folk opera tradition. Sutherland's book of fairy tales and folklore of Ghana, The Voice in the Forest, was published in 1983.

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