New South African Plays

Author : Beverley Naidoo,Sibusiso Mamba,Mike Van Graan,James Whylie,Rehane Abrahams,Ashwin Singh
Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781910798898

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New South African Plays by Beverley Naidoo,Sibusiso Mamba,Mike Van Graan,James Whylie,Rehane Abrahams,Ashwin Singh Pdf

A collection of six plays dealing with the new South Africa, published in 2006 to celebrate 10 years of democracy post-apartheid. Plays about racial conflict, the impact of AIDS, power and corruption, the legacy of the past and female identity. Reprinted 2012, 2019. The Plays The Playground by Beverly Naidoo “...it floats on a haunting, echoing raft of traditional South African harmonies that make watching it a joyful experience as well as a thought-provoking one...” Time Out Critics’ Choice – Pick of the Year Taxi by Sibusiso Mamba: Edinburgh fringe first winner “a superbly written and produced play... A fine piece of work that’s refreshingly free of cliches.” Daily Mail, Pick of the Week Green Man Flashing by Mike Van Graan “...This finely crafted drama tears at the heart and soul of our democracy, and rips at the underbelly of corruption and political power through its astute writing...” Star Tonight Rejoice by James Whylie “... the cruellest irony of all is left until the end... the same one which has spelled the death of Rejoice... And millions more.” Friends of BBC Radio 3 What the Water Gave Me by Rehane Abrahams “tales that retrieve ancient magics and reveal contemporary terrors...” Cape Times To House by Ashwin Singh: Finalist in the 2003 PANSA (Performing Arts Network of SA) Festival of Reading of New Writing (the country’s foremost playwriting contest) “To House is an important piece of theatre; in it people voice opinions that are uncomfortable and edgy. The cathartic and therapeutic value of hearing these things said aloud in a public place is part of our essential healing process and proves, once again, that art has the ability to go where angels fear to tread.” Daily News, Durban

Author : David Graver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253335701

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Drama for a New South Africa by David Graver Pdf

"... a solid addition to international drama." --Library Journal Going beyond the parameters of conventional literary drama, these seven new plays express life issues in post-apartheid South Africa--Islamic fundamentalism, women's rights, ecology, Afrikaans culture and the new multi-racial life of the inner city. While theater rooted in the anti-apartheid movement was rich and vibrant, it was also singleminded in focus, obscuring the diversity of South African culture now brought to life in these works.

Author : Temple Hauptfleisch,Ian Steadman
Publisher : Haum Educational Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040739216

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South African Theatre by Temple Hauptfleisch,Ian Steadman Pdf

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134680863

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The Drama of South Africa by Loren Kruger Pdf

Chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from the time South Africa was established to post-apartheid. Investigates the impact of sketches and manifestos, and the oral preservation of scripts that could not be written.

Author : Kathy Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134673575

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Black South African Women by Kathy Perkins Pdf

This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers, including national and international award-winning playwrights. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as interviews with the writers, who candidly discuss the theatrical and political situation in the new South Africa. Written before and after apartheid, the plays present varying approaches and theatrical styles from solo performances to collective creations. The plays dramatise issues as diverse as: * women's rights * displacement from home * violence against women * the struggle to keep families together * racial identity * education in the old and new South Africa * and health care.

Author : Martin Orkin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and state
ISBN : 071902577X

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Drama and the South African State by Martin Orkin Pdf

Drawing on recent post-structuralist and cultural materialist concepts, Orkin (English, Witwatersrand U., South Africa) examines how South African drama over the past several decades has constructed the subject and the landscape, presented the body, and sometimes sought to define a national culture. He considers both individual playwrights and theatre companies. Distributed in Anglo-America by St. Martin's. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350008021

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A Century of South African Theatre by Loren Kruger Pdf

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla's provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African Theatre demonstrates the impact of theatre and other performances-pageants, concerts, sketches, workshops, and performance art-over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes African responses to pro-British pageants celebrating white Union in 1910, such as the Emancipation Centenary of the abolition of British colonial slavery in 1934 organized by Griffiths Motsieloa and HIE Dhlomo, through anti-apartheid testimonial theatre by Athol Fugard, Maishe Maponya, Gcina Mhlophe, and many others, right up to the present dramatization of state capture, inequality and state violence in today's unevenly democratic society, where government has promised much but delivered little. Building on Loren Kruger's personal observations of forty years as well as her published research, A Century of South African Theatre provides theoretical coordinates from institution to public sphere to syncretism in performance in order to highlight South Africa's changing engagement with the world from the days of Empire, through the apartheid era to the multi-lateral and multi-lingual networks of the 21st century. The final chapters use the Constitution's injunction to improve wellbeing as a prompt to examine the dramaturgy of new problems, especially AIDS and domestic violence, as well as the better known performances in and around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Kruger critically evaluates internationally known theatre makers, including the signature collaborations between animator/designer William Kentridge, and Handspring Puppet Company, and highlights the local and transnational impact of major post-apartheid companies such as Magnet Theatre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004414464

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Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre by Anonim Pdf

After the end of Apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable process of constant aesthetic reinvention. This multivocal volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms.

Author : Fatima Dike
Publisher : Raven Press (South Africa)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063152014

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The First South African by Fatima Dike Pdf

An absolutely fascinating insight into life in a Black township in Apartheid South Africa. Based on a real-life character.

Author : Anton Krueger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443816113

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Experiments in Freedom by Anton Krueger Pdf

Experiments in Freedom examines ways in which identities have been represented in recent South African play texts published in English. It begins by exploring descriptions of identity from various philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspectives and elaborates ways in which drama is uniquely suited to represent—as well as to effect—transformations of identity. In exploring the fraught terrain of identity studies, the book examines a selection of play texts in terms of five different discourse of identity—gender, nationalism, ethnicity, syncretism and race. Instead of building a sustained thesis throughout his text, Krueger writes in short bursts about a multiplicity of topics, extending his explorations rhizomatically into the crevices of a new South African society loath to relinquish its stranglehold on the politics of identity.

Author : Greg Homann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Corruption
ISBN : 1868144933

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At this Stage by Greg Homann Pdf

Featuers the four plays - ""Reach"", ""Some Mother's Sons"", ""Shwele Bawo!!"", and ""Dream of the Dog"" - that explore the themes such as reconciliation, matriarchy, justice, accountability, corruption, truth, memory, and violence which reflect on the challenges and questions South Africans are confronted with in their nascent democratic state.

Author : Olga Barrios Herrero
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788437083988

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The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South America by Olga Barrios Herrero Pdf

El creixement dels moviments sociopolítics entre els anys seixanta i noranta als Estats Units i a Sud-àfrica va establir els ferms fonaments sobre els quals, amb una força i ímpetu sense precedents, es va forjar el teatre negre d'aquests anys. Forma i contingut van sorgir a l'una del compromís polític i artístic adoptat per aquests artistes contra l'imperialisme, el colonialisme i el racisme occidentals. Per primera vegada en la història, el teatre negre dels Estats Units i de Sud-àfrica analitzava i valorava les arrels negres per a poder il·luminar la recerca d'un futur de llibertat. No obstant això, el context sociopolític i les circumstàncies específiques de cada país han generat igualment els trets distintius del teatre afronord-americà i negre sud-africà (incloses les diferències de gènere) manifestos en ramificacions artístiques totalment heterogènies i úniques.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : South African drama (English)
ISBN : 0195767993

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South African Plays for TV, Radio and Stage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113945532X

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A History of South African Literature by Christopher Heywood Pdf

This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.

Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408176719

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy. This volume considers the variety of theatre forms, and the work of the major playwrights and theatre makers producing work in democratic South Africa. It offers an overview of theatre pioneers and theatre forms in Part One, before concentrating on the work of individual playwrights in Part Two. Through its wide-ranging survey of indigenous drama written predominantly in the English language and the analysis of more than 100 plays, a detailed account is provided of post-apartheid South African theatre and its engagement with the country's recent history. Part One offers six overview chapters on South African theatre pioneers and theatre forms. These include consideration of the work of artists such as Barney Simon, Mbongeni Ngema, Phyllis Klotz; the collaborations of William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company; the work of Magnet Theatre, and of physical and popular community theatre forms. Part Two features chapters on twelve major playwrights, including Athol Fugard, Reza de Wet, Lara Foot, Zakes Mda, Yaël Farber, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Mike van Graan and Brett Bailey. It includes a survey of emerging playwrights and significant plays, and the book closes with an interview with Aubrey Sekhabi, the Artistic Director of the South African State Theatre in Pretoria. Written by a team of over twenty leading international scholars, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre is a unique resource that will be invaluable to students and scholars from a range of different disciplines, as well as theatre practitioners.