Download or read book Theatre Near the Equator written by Annabel Maule and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal recollection of the lives and works of Donovan Maule, a former Army Major, and his wife, Mollie, who emigrated from England to Mombasa during the inter-war period, and built a repertory, colonial theatre in Kenya. The story tells in considerable detail of the pre-independence and Second World War periods, of what happened to the theatre during independence and how it finally receded in 1984.