into mainstream publishing. A Dance of the Forests and The Lion and the Jewel were published by Oxford University Press. Soyinka's poems were well represented in the Anthology of Modern Poetry from Africa edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier and published by Penguin.Soyinka felt that his theatre group The 1960 Masks was not professional enough to drive his drama revolution. He therefore formed the Orisun Theatre drama group in 1964. His highly-charged one-act play The Strong Breed was adapted and filmed in Nigeria for American television by Esso World Theatre. To round off the year, The Strong Breed and The Trials of Brother Jero were produced at Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York. A collection of his plays, Five Plays, was published by Oxford University Press.
By 1965 the crisis in the Western region was getting to boiling point, and Soyinka stood up to be counted.
from Burningpot Nigeria: The Essential Soyinka
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