...Zakes Mda Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 Theater and Reconciliation in South Africa Zakes Mda In South Africa, a society which has been, for centuries, characterized by racial segregation, polit- ical oppression, and economic exploitation...

...Loren Kruger Copyright © Theater 1995 1995 So What’s New? Women and Theater in the ‘‘New South Africa” Loren Kruger The new South African constitution condemns discrimination on the grounds of gender and sex- ual orientation as well as race...

...Victoria C. Ekwueme Copyright © yale/theater 1971 1971 Story Theatre In Africa: An Essay In Description. by Victoria C. Ekwueme When Paul Sills realized his conception of Story Theatre at the Yale Repertory Theatre in the 1968 production of Grimm's Fairy Tales, American...

... Thus Harding sets the stage for the book’s dis- in Africa cussion ofcommunity participation and the formation ofritual practices, as well as the The Performance Arts in Africa: A Reader modalities ofperformance in African...

.... 165 Loren Kruger Letter from South Africa In 2004 South Africa celebrated ten years of democracy. In Cape Town, “Mother City” and home to Parliament, the occasion was commemorated by a number of cul- tural events, including an exhibition (Democracy X) tracing the history of South Africa...

... to foster a new generation of professional female dancers/choreographers in West Africa. She proposes that Dans Un S’Y Mettre and Engagement Féminin create a gender politics of their own devising, based in mutual support and articulated through women’s dancing bodies. © 2014 by Emily Carson Coates 2014...

...Piet Defraeye Piet Defraeye explores Milo Rau’s work in Central Africa, focusing on 2011’s Hate Radio and 2015’s The Congo Tribunal . Defraeye suggests that while Rau’s interest in Central Africa is not based on any personal connection, it began before the founding of his company, the International...

...Rustom Bharucha Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 “MEMOIRS OF AFRICA” - PERFORMANCE/TEXT/POLlTlCS RUSTOM BHARUCHA he following are extracts from The Theater...

...Mshengu Copyright © by yale/theatre 1976 1976 South Africa: Where Mvelinqangi Still Limps (The Experimental Theatre of Workshop ’7 1) Mshengu Workers from the industrial ghetto of Mamelodi near Pretoria glance cursorily at a cloth banner fluttering on the telephone poles...

...Catherine M. Cole In this excerpt from her forthcoming study Stages of Transition: Performing South Africa's Truth Commission , Cole examines the creation and reception of REwind: A Cantata , a musical performance incorporating recorded testimony from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation...

... in the new South Africa; Savas Patsalidis considers the elusive question of who actually is the “audience” for theater festivals; Max Glauner examines new models of tailoring festival experiences to individual spectators; Barbara Orel parses the situation of national arts festivals in an increasingly...

...Jay Pather Using the protests of the Fees Must Fall movement as his starting point, Jay Pather examines the contradictions inherent within the culturally and politically loaded black body of postapartheid South Africa. Pather discusses the works of Brett Murray, Chuma Sopotela, Themba Mbuli...

...Catherine M. Cole Gabrielle Goliath s Elegy, seven-channel video installation, Future Generation Art Prize, Palazzo Ca Tron, Venice, 2019. Photo: Maksim Belousov 87 Books Catherine M. Cole Volatility and Precarity in the Rainbow Nation Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa...

... appropriation and “celebration,” audience responses to them, and his evolving approaches to theater and society. Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2009 Daniel Larlham Brett Bailey and Third World Bunfight Journeys into the South African Psyche “South Africa’s edgiest director.”1...

...-Tombi (“Where are the girls is the latest in then on to the mines; a township wedding is a series of musical plays from South Africa that are enacted, and the narrator finally moves back to the primarily designed for white audiences and use country. elements ofblack culture, especially legends...

... going to show up. And we were going to be lucky to Knowing there wouldn’t be many roles for me in South Africa, I have any set at all; there weren’t going to be two, or three. stayed in England and studied acting. Athol went home and kept...

...Heinrich von Staden Copyright © THEATER 1982 1982 An Interview walking on the edge of what is pennissi- Heinrich VOn Staden ble in south Africa, with a lot...

... of Boesman and Lena and also is when you stop smoking cigarettes, and is also a change in your career. A: Ja Ja 0: In what sense? A: Well, after I had done my last really commercial run of Boesman and Lena in South Africa, I decided to try and do something which had been sort...

... of July, 1994, exactly three months after South Africa’s exhilirating passage to 9 democracy, a group of black actors was to be found holed up in a suburban Johannesburg hotel, forced into hiding because of death threats surrounding the broadcast of a fictional TV mini- series called The Line...