Impact of Pre-independence And Post-Independence Ghanaian Theatre To Ghana’s devt March 11, 2021 The kind of theatre that took place before Ghana’s independence was primarily the closet type. On the basis of critical analysisand evaluation, and technically, the early Ghanaian playwrights who wrote plays for staging, were not skilful and experience enough in terms of craft for playwriting to make their works suitable for the purpose of putting them on stage for audience. Thus, these early Ghanaian playwrights were in fact trying to imitate western playwrights whose plays they had read and studied. Thus, their attempts to write plays designed for the stage based on the western pattern were ineffective and unsuccessful to meet the requisite standards in the art of playwriting that is tailored for staging purpose.