Wolfgang Schneider / Lebogang L. Nawa (eds.)

Theatre in Transformation

Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa

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.

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Wolfgang Schneider

Wolfgang Schneider, UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development/Universität Hildesheim, Deutschland

Lebogang L. Nawa

Lebogang L. Nawa, Segarona Culture Institute, Südafrika

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Author(s): Wolfgang Schneider / Lebogang L. Nawa (eds.)
Book title: Theatre in Transformation Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Pages: 258

ISBN: 978-3-8394-4682-9
DOI
Commodity Group: 1586
BIC-Code: AN JPQB
BISAC-Code: PER011020 POL038000
THEMA-Code: ATD JPQB

Release date: 2019-01-23
Topics: Kultur, Politik, Theater
Readership: Cultural Studies, Theatre Science, Arts Sociology

Keywords/Tags: Theatre Arts, Transformation Processes, Cultural Policy, Theatre, Culture, Politics, Theatre Studies, Africa

Theatre in Transformation

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Frontmatter

Inhalt

Theatre in Transformation. Foreword of the editors

Bibliography

Prologue: Time to take stock?. The Role of Theatre in Transformation

Theatre in Transformation. The history

Arts and Culture in South Africa. Taking Centre Stage on the Globe from Colonialism, Fascism, Apar theid and Beyond

Pinholes against apartheid. A Brief History of Political Theatre in South Africa

Theatre of Resistance. The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s

The Unequal Brothers. The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres

Transformation in Theatre. The discourse

The performing arts as a social force. South Africa's post-apar theid theatre in the process of transformation

"Taking meat to the knives". Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre - Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa"

Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play?. Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto"

Soul food. South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role

Theatre for Protest. The political dimension

The State of the Nation's redress re-dressed. The new forms of protest in South African Theatre and the Theatre of Excess

Political Theatre and Cultural Activism in the Free State Province, South Africa. The vacuum lef t by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko

Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre

Artists as "Seismographs", Theatre as a "Mirror" of Society? Conversation with Cultural Activists: Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about Social Transformation

Theatre for Young Audiences. The Art of Education

Between Traditional Practise and Contemporary Forms. Theatre for Young Audiences in (South-) Africa

The ideal of a Rainbow Nation 1. What Theatre Arts and Cultural Policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa

Cradle of Creativity. Cape Town was the Capital of Theatre for Young Audiences

Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity

Township Theatre Making. An Ethnographic Study about a Developmental Tool for Khayelitsha Youth

Freedom of Expression. Perspectives on the Performing Arts

From "Playing" to "Working". Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of Theatre in South Africa

Staring Dispassionately into the Abyss. Director and Author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto

Theatre Development and Cultural Policy in Rural Areas. A grassroots perspective from Nor th West Province, South Africa

Are we actually deeply enough… …with these socio-political questions in our theatres?

Scratching the Wounds of the Past. A Playwright-Director's Note on the Play - Silent Scars

Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre. The case of Mmabana Ar ts Culture Spor ts and Foundation, North West Province

Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl. South Africa's sociological theatre landscape

Epilogue: Theatre and the post-apartheid condition

Authors List

Wolfgang Schneider

Lebogang L. Nawa