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Theatre & Change in South Africa

Author : Geoffrey Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134362978
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Theatre & Change in South Africa written by Geoffrey Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity? These are just of the questions addressed in this book. The real and present difficulties South Africian theatre is facing, as well as possible future orientations, are clearly shown, at one of the most complex moments of political transition in the history of the South African society. The authors include contributions from playwrights, actors, visual artists, poets, directors, administrators, critics and theatre academics. Their comments and thoughts portray the active process of reflection and reappraisal, redefining their artistic and political aims, searching for new and vital theatrical forms.

Theatre and Change in South Africa

Author : Geoffrey V. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9783718656509
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Change in South Africa written by Geoffrey V. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Township Tonight!

Author : David Bellin Coplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Township Tonight! written by David Bellin Coplan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David B. Coplan's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985. Now completely revised, expanded, and updated, this new edition takes account of developments over the last thirty years while reflecting on the massive changes in South African politics and society since the end of the apartheid era. In vivid detail, Coplan comprehensively explores more than three centuries of the diverse history of South Africa's black popular culture, taking readers from indigenous musical traditions into the world of slave orchestras, pennywhistlers, clergyman-composers, the gumboot dances of mineworkers, and touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts.

Kunene and the King

Author : John Kani
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776191331
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Kunene and the King written by John Kani and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What lies beneath the apparent simplicity of Kunene and the King is a lot of moral, political and existential depth. This is testimony to the brilliance of John Kani.' – EUSEBIUS McKAISER South Africa, 2019. Twenty-five years since the first post-apartheid democratic elections. Jack Morris is a celebrated classical actor who has just been given a career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis. Lunga Kunene is a retired senior male nurse from Soweto now working for private patients. Besides their age, they appear not to have much in common. But a shared passion for Shakespeare soon ignites a 'rich, raw and shattering head-to-head' (The Times) as the duet from contrasting walks of life unpack the racial, political and social complexities of modern South Africa. Kunene and the King is a vital play that combines the magnificence of classic Shakespearean comedy, tragedy and history to reflect on a new yet deeply wounded society.

A Century of South African Theatre

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135000801X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Century of South African Theatre written by Loren Kruger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla's provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African Theatre demonstrates the impact of theatre and other performances-pageants, concerts, sketches, workshops, and performance art-over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes African responses to pro-British pageants celebrating white Union in 1910, such as the Emancipation Centenary of the abolition of British colonial slavery in 1934 organized by Griffiths Motsieloa and HIE Dhlomo, through anti-apartheid testimonial theatre by Athol Fugard, Maishe Maponya, Gcina Mhlophe, and many others, right up to the present dramatization of state capture, inequality and state violence in today's unevenly democratic society, where government has promised much but delivered little. Building on Loren Kruger's personal observations of forty years as well as her published research, A Century of South African Theatre provides theoretical coordinates from institution to public sphere to syncretism in performance in order to highlight South Africa's changing engagement with the world from the days of Empire, through the apartheid era to the multi-lateral and multi-lingual networks of the 21st century. The final chapters use the Constitution's injunction to improve wellbeing as a prompt to examine the dramaturgy of new problems, especially AIDS and domestic violence, as well as the better known performances in and around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Kruger critically evaluates internationally known theatre makers, including the signature collaborations between animator/designer William Kentridge, and Handspring Puppet Company, and highlights the local and transnational impact of major post-apartheid companies such as Magnet Theatre.

Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thtre

Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135293538
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thtre written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today

Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113529352X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

South African Theatre

Author : Temple Hauptfleisch
Publisher : Haum Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African Theatre written by Temple Hauptfleisch and published by Haum Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drama of South Africa

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134680864
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of South Africa written by Loren Kruger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from the time South Africa was established to post-apartheid. Investigates the impact of sketches and manifestos, and the oral preservation of scripts that could not be written.

South African Theatre as/and Intervention

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484205
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book South African Theatre as/and Intervention written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most striking features of cultural life in South Africa has been the extent to which one area of cultural practice - theatre - has more than any other testified to the present condition of the country, now in transition between its colonial past and a decolonized future. But in what sense and how far does the critical force of theatre in South Africa as a mode of intervention continue? In the immediate post-election moment, theatre seemed to be pursuing an escapist, nostalgic route, relieved of its historical burden of protest and opposition. But, as the contributors to this volume show, new voices have been emerging, and a more complex politics of the theatre, involving feminist and gay initiatives, physical theatre, festival theatre and theatre-for-education, has become apparent. Both new and familiar players in South African theatre studies from around the world here respond to or anticipate the altered conditions of the country, while exploring the notion that theatre continues to 'intervene.' This broad focus enables a wide and stimulating range of approaches: contributors examine strategies of intervention among audiences, theatres, established and fledgling writers, canonical and new texts, traditional and innovative critical perspectives. The book concludes with four recent interviews with influential practitioners about the meaning and future of theatre in South Africa: Athol Fugard, Fatima Dike, Reza de Wet, and Janet Suzman.

Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance

Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891770
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance written by Patrick J. Ebewo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the rich repertoire of artistic traditions in Southern Africa, particularly in the areas of drama, theatre and performance, there seems to be a lack of a corresponding robust academic engagement with these subjects. While it can be said that some of the racial groups in the region have received substantial attention in terms of scholarly discussions of their drama and theatre performances, the same cannot be said of the black African racial group. As such, this collection of thirteen chapters represents a compendium of critical and intellectual discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered in the book include, amongst others, ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, textual analyses, and the funeral rites (viewed as performance) of the South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela. The discussions are rooted mainly using African paradigms that are relevant to the context of African cultural production. The contributions here add to the aggregate knowledge economy of Southern Africa, promote research and publication, and provide reading materials for university students specialising in the performing arts. As such, the book will appeal to academics, theatre scholars, cultural workers and arts administrators, arts practitioners and entrepreneurs, the tourism industry, arts educators, and development communication experts.

The Story of Theatre in South Africa

Author : Jill Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Theatre in South Africa written by Jill Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drama of South Africa

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134680856
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of South Africa written by Loren Kruger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drama of South Africa comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from 1910, when the country came into official existence, to the advent of post-apartheid. Eminent theatre historian Loren Kruger discusses well-known figures, as well as lesser-known performers and directors who have enriched the theatre of South Africa. She also highlights the contribution of women and other minorities, concluding with a discussion of the post-apartheid character of South Africa at the end of the twentieth century.

A Century of South African Theatre

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350008028
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Theatre in Transformation

Author : Wolfgang Schneider
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839446821
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Theatre in Transformation written by Wolfgang Schneider and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are artists seismographs during processes of transformation? Is theatre a mirror of society? And how does it influence society offstage? To address these questions, this collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theatre and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, followed by a documentation of panel discussions on the Soweto Theatre. The texts collected here bring to the surface new faces and voices who advance the performing arts with their images and lexicons revolving around topics such as patriarchy, femicide and xenophobia.

A History of Theatre in Africa

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451499
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A History of Theatre in Africa written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.

Politics and Performance

Author : Elizabeth Gunner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781868142149
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Performance written by Elizabeth Gunner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of essays that explore aspects of popular culture in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These writings examine such topics as the degree of state control over theatre, the interaction - or lack of it - between high and popular culture, the struggle to define meaningful cultural forms in the wake of a dominating and exclusive colonial culture and the contribution of women. What emerges is a strong sense of regional concerns shared by the Southern African cultures under discussion, the contributors also give voice to crucial differences and debates on the nature of contemporary theatre and performance and the links with popular culture, politics and nation.