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Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134680863
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 : David Graver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253335701
"... 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 : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134680856
The Drama of South Africa comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from 1910, when the country came into official existence, to the advent of post-apartheid. Eminent theatre historian Loren Kruger discusses well-known figures, as well as lesser-known performers and directors who have enriched the theatre of South Africa. She also highlights the contribution of women and other minorities, concluding with a discussion of the post-apartheid character of South Africa at the end of the twentieth century.
Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443891776
In spite of the rich repertoire of artistic traditions in Southern Africa, particularly in the areas of drama, theatre and performance, there seems to be a lack of a corresponding robust academic engagement with these subjects. While it can be said that some of the racial groups in the region have received substantial attention in terms of scholarly discussions of their drama and theatre performances, the same cannot be said of the black African racial group. As such, this collection of thirteen chapters represents a compendium of critical and intellectual discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered in the book include, amongst others, ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, textual analyses, and the funeral rites (viewed as performance) of the South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela. The discussions are rooted mainly using African paradigms that are relevant to the context of African cultural production. The contributions here add to the aggregate knowledge economy of Southern Africa, promote research and publication, and provide reading materials for university students specialising in the performing arts. As such, the book will appeal to academics, theatre scholars, cultural workers and arts administrators, arts practitioners and entrepreneurs, the tourism industry, arts educators, and development communication experts.
Author : Martin Orkin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and state
ISBN : 071902577X
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 : Mzo Sirayi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781477120828
Mzo Sirayi has embarked on a highly impressive and daring enterprise with the unfl inching boldness of a scholar who is driven by a passionate pursuit to set the record straight. He manages to pull no punches and make no apologies by being true to his convictions, especially within the context of a new South Africa. The book adopts a largely historicized, critical and analytical perspective, which strikingly approximates that of postcolonial theory. — Owen Seda This new and authoritative book is an excellent addition to the few existing books on black South African drama and theatre. South African Drama and Th eatre from Pre-colonial Times to 1990s: An Alternative Reading takes the reader on a tour of the indigenous as well as the modern South African theatre zones. The chapters reverberate with echoes of Africanisation and rock on renaissance waves. This exciting and stimulating book is transparently readable, accessible and is of inestimable value to academics and general readers. — Patrick Ebewo
Author : John Conteh-Morgan,Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780253217011
This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films.
Author : Temple Hauptfleisch,Ian Steadman
Publisher : Haum Educational Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040739216
Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408176719
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.
Author : Allan Kolski Horwitz,Ken Edwards
Publisher : Reality Street Editions
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 1874400423
Author : Stephen Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1854591487
This multi-ethnic volume of five plays looks at the many problems facing South Africa. The stories include Anthony Akerman's Somewhere on the Border, an anti-war play dealing with the invasion of Angola; The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya, which dramatises black disabilities and the will to liberation; Susan Pam's Curl Up and Dye, a story about five women in a hair salon who find the divisions of apartheid stronger than their common interests; Paul Slabolepsky's Over the Hill which uses sporting metaphor to anatomize the white middle class and Just Like Home, a mediation on exile.
Author : Fatima Dike
Publisher : Raven Press (South Africa)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063152014
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 : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443816113
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 : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350008014
“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 : Kolski Horwitz,Siphiwe ka
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781990922046
The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time largely politisized black workers and youth with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society. Botsotso 20: Drama. The Dramas of Life is an anthology of eight South African plays drawn from the last decade (2008 -18) engages with personal dilemmas and social realities. The themes reflect the general unravelling of the 1994 political settlement as racism, poverty and inequality, patriarchy, violence against women and LGBT people, the failure to provide quality education and high levels of corruption expose widening fault lines. They display great energy and dramatic virtuosity in their exploration of these and other themes and create vivid characters who transcend the rhetorical. The plays included are "Isithunzi" by Sipho Zakwe, "Sleeping Dogs" by Simphiwe Vikilahle, "The Good Candidate" by Hans Pienaar, "Shoes and Coups" by Palesa Mazamisa, "Book Marks" by Allan Kolski Horwitz, "The Couch" by Sjaka Septembir, "Iziyalo Zikamama" by the Botsotso Ensemble and "Finding Me" by Moeketsi Kgotle.