THE MARRIAGE OF ANANSEWA AND EDUFA, two plays

157pp., paperback, Reprint, Harlow, (1987) 1991

The play Edufa (1967) is based on Alcestis by Euripides.

In The Marriage of Anansewa (1975) Sutherland transforms traditional Akan tales of Ananse Spider (Anansesem) into a new dramatic structure which she called Anansegoro.

Ghanaian playwright, theatre director and poet Efua Theodora Sutherland (1924-1996) founded the Ghana Drama Studio,the Ghana Society of Writers, the Ghana Experimental Theatre, and a community project called the Kodzidan (Story House). She co-founded the publishing company Afram Publications in Accra in the early 1970s and was the inspiration behind the biennial Pan-African Historical Theatre Project known as PANAFEST, first held in Ghana in 1992.