Ghana Drama Studio

The Ghana Drama Studio was an Accra-based theatrical group founded by Efua Sutherland. Sutherland, a prominent Ghanaian playwright, established the studio to explore traditional performance spaces and styles. She was known for her plays written in both Akan and English, such as Foriwa and The Marriage of Anansewa, which often addressed political issues relevant to Ghana's independence and explored traditional storytelling forms like anansegoro. The studio aimed to foster and popularize Ghanaian art forms, contributing to the national self-consciousness generated by the independence movement. Sutherland also wrote children's plays and was instrumental in the systematic study and organization of indigenous dance forms at the University of Ghana's Institute of African Studies.12