Theatre in Transformation : : Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa /

Theatre in Transformation : : Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa / / ed. by Lebogang L. Nawa, Wolfgang Schneider.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2019 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Chale, Katlego,
Fiebach, Joachim,
Frey, Theresa,
Fülle, Henning,
Graan, Mike van,
Gumede, Khayelihle Dom,
Hardie, Yvette,
Heinicke, Julius,
Hemke, Rolf C.,
Jeroma, Petra,
Kgwasi, Obakeng,
Kraft, Johanna,
Lange, Isa,
Lewis, Janine,
Madumo, Refilwe,
Makhene, Motsumi,
Mbele, Ongezwa,
Mohlomi, Sefako Bethuel,
Moshounyane, Montshiwa K.,
Msimanga, Nondumiso Lwazi,
Nawa, Lebogang L.,
Ratladi, Calvin,
Schneider, Wolfgang,
Serote, Mongane W.,
Sichel, Adrienne,
HerausgeberIn:
Nawa, Lebogang L.,
Schneider, Wolfgang,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Theater ; 122
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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