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...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript-Verlag,
[2019]
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| Series: | Theater (Transcript (Firm)) ;
Bd. 122. |
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Table of Contents:
- Theatre in transformation. The history
- Transformation in the feature. The discourse
- Theatre for protest. The political dimension
- Theatre for young audiences. The art of education
- Freedom of expression. Perspectives on the performing arts.
- Foreword of the editors / Wolfgang Schneider, Lebogang L. Nawa
- Prologue : Time to take stock? The role of theatre in transformation / Rolf C. Hemke
- Arts and culture in South Africa : Taking centre stage on the globe from colonialism, fascism, apartheid and beyond / Mongane W. Serote
- Pinholes against apartheid : A brief history of political theatre in South Africa / Joachim Fiebach
- Theatre of resistance : The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s / Makhene, Motsumi
- Unequal brothers : The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres / Adrienne Sichel
- Performing arts as a social force : South Africa's post-apartheid theatre in the process of transformation / Wolfgang Schneider
- "Taking meat to the knives" : Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre : Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa" / Lebogang L. Nawa
- Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play? Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto" / Lebogang L. Nawa
- Soul food : South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role / Henning Fülle
- State of the nation's redress re-dressed : The new forms of protest in South African theatre and the theatre of excess / Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga
- Political theatre and cultural activism in the Free State Province, South Africa : The vacuum left by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko / Montshiwa K. Moshounyane
- Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre / Janine Lewis, Katlego Chale
- Artists as "seismographs", theatre as a "mirror" of society? Conversation with cultural activists : Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about social transformation / Isa Lange
- Between traditional practise and contemporary forms : Theatre for young audiences in (South-) Africa / Yvette Hardie
- Ideal of a rainbow nation 1 : What theatre arts and cultural policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa / Julius Heinicke
- Cradle of creativity : Cape Town was the capital of theatre for young Audiences / Wolfgang Schneider
- Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity / Theresa Frye, Petra Jeroma, Johanna Kraft
- Township theatre making : An ethnographic study about a developmental tool for Khayelitsha youth / Ongezwa Mbele
- From "playing" to "working" : Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of theatre in South Africa / Motsumi Makhene
- Staring dispassionately into the abyss : Director and author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto / Rolf C. Hemke
- Theatre development and cultural policy in rural areas : A grassroots perspective from North West Province, South Africa / Sefako Bethuel Mohlomi
- Are we actually deeply enough ... with these socio-political questions in our theatres? / Khayelihle Dom Gumede
- Scratching the wounds of the past : A playwright-director's note on the play : Silent Scars / Calvin Ratladi
- Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre : The case of Mmabana Arts Culture Sports and Foundation, North West Province / Obakeng Kgwasi
- Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl : South Africa's sociological theatre landscape / Refilwe Madumo
- Epilogue : Theatre and the post-apartheid condition / Mike van Graan.
