| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Theatre studies ; volume 122
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Theater (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 122.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Based on the conference "Theatre in Transformation" held in Pretoria and Soweto, South Africa from 11-13 March 2016. |
| Contents |
Theatre in transformation. The history -- Transformation in the feature. The discourse -- Theatre for protest. The political dimension -- Theatre for young audiences. The art of education -- Freedom of expression. Perspectives on the performing arts. |
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Foreword of the editors / Wolfgang Schneider, Lebogang L. Nawa -- Prologue : Time to take stock? The role of theatre in transformation / Rolf C. Hemke -- Arts and culture in South Africa : Taking centre stage on the globe from colonialism, fascism, apartheid and beyond / Mongane W. Serote -- Pinholes against apartheid : A brief history of political theatre in South Africa / Joachim Fiebach -- Theatre of resistance : The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s / Makhene, Motsumi -- Unequal brothers : The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres / Adrienne Sichel -- Performing arts as a social force : South Africa's post-apartheid theatre in the process of transformation / Wolfgang Schneider -- "Taking meat to the knives" : Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre : Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa" / Lebogang L. Nawa -- Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play? Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto" / Lebogang L. Nawa -- Soul food : South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role / Henning Fülle -- State of the nation's redress re-dressed : The new forms of protest in South African theatre and the theatre of excess / Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga -- Political theatre and cultural activism in the Free State Province, South Africa : The vacuum left by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko / Montshiwa K. Moshounyane -- Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre / Janine Lewis, Katlego Chale -- Artists as "seismographs", theatre as a "mirror" of society? Conversation with cultural activists : Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about social transformation / Isa Lange -- Between traditional practise and contemporary forms : Theatre for young audiences in (South-) Africa / Yvette Hardie -- Ideal of a rainbow nation 1 : What theatre arts and cultural policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa / Julius Heinicke -- Cradle of creativity : Cape Town was the capital of theatre for young Audiences / Wolfgang Schneider -- Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity / Theresa Frye, Petra Jeroma, Johanna Kraft -- Township theatre making : An ethnographic study about a developmental tool for Khayelitsha youth / Ongezwa Mbele -- From "playing" to "working" : Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of theatre in South Africa / Motsumi Makhene -- Staring dispassionately into the abyss : Director and author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto / Rolf C. Hemke -- Theatre development and cultural policy in rural areas : A grassroots perspective from North West Province, South Africa / Sefako Bethuel Mohlomi -- Are we actually deeply enough ... with these socio-political questions in our theatres? / Khayelihle Dom Gumede -- Scratching the wounds of the past : A playwright-director's note on the play : Silent Scars / Calvin Ratladi -- Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre : The case of Mmabana Arts Culture Sports and Foundation, North West Province / Obakeng Kgwasi -- Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl : South Africa's sociological theatre landscape / Refilwe Madumo -- Epilogue : Theatre and the post-apartheid condition / Mike van Graan. |
| Summary |
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 political theatre and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, followed by a documentation of panel discussions on the Soweto Theatre. The texts collected here bring to the surface new faces and voices who advance the performing arts with their images and lexicons revolving around topics such as patriarchy, femicide and xenophobia. |
| Biography |
Wolfgang Schneider is chair holder of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development and professor for cultural policy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Lebogang L. Nawa is a former post-doctoral researcher at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and now Director of privately self-owned Segarona Culture Institute, South Africa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Theater -- South Africa -- History -- Congresses.
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Theater. |
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South Africa. |
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History. |
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Performing arts -- South Africa -- Congresses.
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South Africa -- Cultural policy -- Congresses.
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Cultural policy. |
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Performing arts. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Schneider, Wolfgang, 1954- editor.
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Nawa, Lebogang Lancelot, editor.
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Theatre in Transformation (Conference) (2016 : Pretoria and Soweto, South Africa)
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| Added Title |
Theater in transformation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Theatre in transformation. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2019] 9783837646825 (OCoLC)1086256789 |
| ISBN |
9783839446829 pdf |
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3839446821 pdf |
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9783837646825 paperback |
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3837646823 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839446829 |
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