Theatre in Transformation: Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa (Paperback)

Frontmatter 1
Inhalt 5
Theatre in Transformation. Foreword of the editors 9
Bibliography 14
Prologue: Time to take stock?. The Role of Theatre in Transformation 15
Arts and Culture in South Africa. Taking Centre Stage on the Globe from Colonialism, Fascism, Apar theid and Beyond 27
Pinholes against apartheid. A Brief History of Political Theatre in South Africa 37
Theatre of Resistance. The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s 43
The Unequal Brothers. The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres 53
The performing arts as a social force. South Africa's post-apar theid theatre in the process of transformation 61
"Taking meat to the knives". Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre - Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa" 67
Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play?. Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto" 83
Soul food. South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role 101
The State of the Nation's redress re-dressed. The new forms of protest in South African Theatre and the Theatre of Excess 107
Political Theatre and Cultural Activism in the Free State Province, South Africa. The vacuum lef t by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko 121
Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre 131
Artists as "Seismographs", Theatre as a "Mirror" of Society? Conversation with Cultural Activists: Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about Social Transformation 147
Between Traditional Practise and Contemporary Forms. Theatre for Young Audiences in (South-) Africa 153
The ideal of a Rainbow Nation 1. What Theatre Arts and Cultural Policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa 157
Cradle of Creativity. Cape Town was the Capital of Theatre for Young Audiences 173
Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity 177
Township Theatre Making. An Ethnographic Study about a Developmental Tool for Khayelitsha Youth 183
From "Playing" to "Working". Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of Theatre in South Africa 193
Staring Dispassionately into the Abyss. Director and Author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto 203
Theatre Development and Cultural Policy in Rural Areas. A grassroots perspective from Nor th West Province, South Africa 209
Are we actually deeply enough with these socio-political questions in our theatres? 219
Scratching the Wounds of the Past. A Playwright-Director's Note on the Play - Silent Scars 225
Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre. The case of Mmabana Ar ts Culture Spor ts and Foundation, North West Province 233
Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl. South Africa's sociological theatre landscape 243
Epilogue: Theatre and the post-apartheid condition 249
Authors List 255