Forays into contemporary South African theatre : : a devising new stage idioms / / Edited by Marc Maufort; Jessica Maufort.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures ; 211
• TeilnehmendeR: Maufort, Marc,; Maufort, Jessica,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures ; 211.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

In the years that followed the end of apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable productivity, which resulted in a process of constant aesthetic reinvention. After 1994, the “protest” theatre template of the apartheid years morphed into a wealth of diverse forms of stage idioms, detectable in the works of Greg Homann, Mike van Graan, Craig Higginson, Lara Foot, Omphile Molusi, Nadia Davids, Magnet Theatre, Rehane Abrahams, Amy Jephta, and Reza de Wet, to cite only a few prominent examples. Marc and Jessica Maufort’s multivocal edited volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms. This book’s underlying assumption is that creolization reflects the processes of identity renegotiation in contemporary South Africa and their multi-faceted theatrical representations. Contributors: Veronica Baxter, Marcia Blumberg, Vicki Briault Manus, Petrus du Preez, Paula Fourie, Craig Higginson, Greg Homann, Jessica Maufort, Marc Maufort, Omphile Molusi, Jessica Murray, Jill Planche, Ksenia Robbe, Mathilde Rogez, Chris Thurman, Mike van Graan, and Ralph Yarrow.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- A Fraught Process: Devising New Stage Idioms for Post-apartheid South Africa / Marc Maufort and Jessica Maufort -- Playwrights’ Perspectives -- On Black and White: Staging South African Identities after Apartheid / Greg Homann -- Being in Two Places at the Same Time / Craig Higginson -- Theatre of the Native Tongue / Omphile Molusi -- Transformation and the Post-apartheid Condition: The Collision of Policy and Imagination in South African Theatre / Mike van Graan -- Dramatic, Theatrical and Performance Reconfigurations -- Performing Athol Fugard’s Outsider Art in The Road to Mecca and The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek: Transformative Art Defies Percepticide / Marcia Blumberg -- Alluring Voices from the Page to the Stage: Literary Characters and the Question of the “Real” in Reza de Wet’s Verleiding / Petrus du Preez -- From the Stage to the Page: Trauma, Reconciliation and Remembering in Craig Higginson’s Dream of the Dog and The Dream House / Mathilde Rogez -- South African Theatre and the Politics of the Improvisatory / Ralph Yarrow -- The Fault-Lines of Idiom: New Thematic and Stylistic Trends in the Plays of Allan Kolski Horwitz / Vicki Briault Manus -- Revisiting the Past, Imagining the Future: Aesthetic of Creolization in Post-apartheid South African Drama / Marc Maufort -- Female Playwriting -- Intimate Exposure: Solo Women Performing in Post-apartheid South Africa / Veronica Baxter -- Recuperating Historical Narratives of Violence and Dislocation in Rehane Abrahams’ What the Water Gave Me / Jill Planche -- Female Interventions in Contemporary South African Drama and Performance: An Analysis of Selected Work by Women Artists / Jessica Murray -- An Unfinished Homecoming: Postmemory, Place and New Practices of Politicisation in the Plays of Nadia Davids and Amy Jephta / Ksenia Robbe -- Creolization: From the Cape to Transnational Vistas -- “Dis Nie Myne Nie, Dis Nie Joune Nie” or Kramer and Petersen’s Ghoema: Inscribing the Past, Claiming the Present? / Paula Fourie -- Shakespeare versus Shakespeare: Notes on Theatre-Making from Belgium to South Africa / Chris Thurman -- Back Matter -- Index of Names and Literary Works.