Thesis
ADAKU (A Play)
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2025
DOI: 10.25820/etd.007840
Abstract
In 1979 Nigeria, a good man’s sudden death in a hunting accident leaves his widow in a mourning chair. Their daughter, Adaku, seeks to bring honor to her community like her hunter-father but soon discovers the unwritten rules that govern her destiny as a woman, and even more so, as an Igbo woman.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- ADAKU (A Play)
- Creators
- Sixtus Chetachi Igbokwe
- Contributors
- Art Borreca (Advisor)Lisa Schlesinger (Committee Member)Megan Gogerty (Committee Member)Scott Bradley (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Theatre Arts (Playwriting)
- Date degree season
- Spring 2025
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.007840
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vii, 93 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2025 Sixtus Chetachi Igbokwe
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 04/25/2025
- Public Abstract (ETD)
In 1979 Nigeria, a good man’s sudden death in a hunting accident leaves his widow in a mourning chair. Their daughter, Adaku, seeks to bring honor to her community like her hunter-father but soon discovers the unwritten rules that govern her destiny as a woman, and even more so, as an Igbo woman.
- Academic Unit
- Theatre Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984831124002771
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