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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Inhalt
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Theatre in Transformation. Foreword of the editors
Seiten 9 - 14 -
Bibliography
Seite 14 -
Prologue: Time to take stock?. The Role of Theatre in Transformation
Seiten 15 - 24 -
Theatre in Transformation. The history
Arts and Culture in South Africa. Taking Centre Stage on the Globe from Colonialism, Fascism, Apar theid and Beyond
Seiten 27 - 36 -
Pinholes against apartheid. A Brief History of Political Theatre in South Africa
Seiten 37 - 42 -
Theatre of Resistance. The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s
Seiten 43 - 52 -
The Unequal Brothers. The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres
Seiten 53 - 58 -
Transformation in Theatre. The discourse
The performing arts as a social force. South Africa's post-apar theid theatre in the process of transformation
Seiten 61 - 66 -
"Taking meat to the knives". Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre - Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa"
Seiten 67 - 82 -
Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play?. Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto"
Seiten 83 - 100 -
Soul food. South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role
Seiten 101 - 104 -
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
Seiten 107 - 120 -
Political Theatre and Cultural Activism in the Free State Province, South Africa. The vacuum lef t by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko
Seiten 121 - 130 -
Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre
Seiten 131 - 146 -
Artists as "Seismographs", Theatre as a "Mirror" of Society? Conversation with Cultural Activists: Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about Social Transformation
Seiten 147 - 150 -
Theatre for Young Audiences. The Art of Education
Between Traditional Practise and Contemporary Forms. Theatre for Young Audiences in (South-) Africa
Seiten 153 - 156 -
The ideal of a Rainbow Nation 1. What Theatre Arts and Cultural Policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa
Seiten 157 - 172 -
Cradle of Creativity. Cape Town was the Capital of Theatre for Young Audiences
Seiten 173 - 176 -
Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity
Seiten 177 - 182 -
Township Theatre Making. An Ethnographic Study about a Developmental Tool for Khayelitsha Youth
Seiten 183 - 190 -
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
Seiten 193 - 202 -
Staring Dispassionately into the Abyss. Director and Author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto
Seiten 203 - 208 -
Theatre Development and Cultural Policy in Rural Areas. A grassroots perspective from Nor th West Province, South Africa
Seiten 209 - 218 -
Are we actually deeply enough… …with these socio-political questions in our theatres?
Seiten 219 - 224 -
Scratching the Wounds of the Past. A Playwright-Director's Note on the Play - Silent Scars
Seiten 225 - 232 -
Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre. The case of Mmabana Ar ts Culture Spor ts and Foundation, North West Province
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Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl. South Africa's sociological theatre landscape
Seiten 243 - 248 -
Epilogue: Theatre and the post-apartheid condition
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Authors List
Seiten 255 - 258
17 January 2019, 258 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4682-9
File size: 2.21 MB
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