Playing the Market : : The Market Theatre, Johannesburg. Revised and updated edition / / Anne Fuchs.

The relationship between Johannesburg's Market Theatre and the economic and political forces of South Africa's apartheid regime was both complex and somewhat ambiguous. The theatre's two founders, Mannie Manim and Barney Simon, however, from idealistic beginnings managed to steer thei...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures ; 50
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Edition:2nd ed.
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures ; 50.
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 Mannie Manim, the Performing Arts Councils and the commercial scene in Johannesburg in 1974
  • 2 Spaces and sites
  • I FOUNDATIONS
  • 3 The road to the Market
  • 4 The foundation of the Market.
  • 5 . and the Market Foundation
  • II THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE - ANALYSES
  • 6 The choices when Paradise is Closing Down
  • 7 Born in the RSA as a shaping force
  • 8 New concepts of drama: From white conscientization to Bopha!
  • 9 Associations with the Market: Umongikazi and You strike the woman, You strike the Rock
  • III THE MARKET AND THE ENVIRONMENT OF CULTURAL STRUGGLE
  • 10 The Market and the voice of the black majority in 1980
  • 11 Developments at home and abroad in 1986
  • 12 The reckoning at the end of the first decade
  • IV THE GRANITE EDIFICE CRUMBLES
  • Preliminary note
  • 13 Critics, culture-brokers and the theatre in 1990
  • 14 Drama for a new society? Targeting the spectator in the early 1990s
  • 15 The body of change and the changing body in the plays of Junction Avenue Theatre Company
  • POSTSCRIPT
  • Works cited
  • Bibliography
  • Index.