Theatre in Transformation: Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa

Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Theatre in Transformation

Artistic Processes and Cultural Policy in South Africa

Edited by: Wolfgang Schneider and Lebogang L. Nawa

Volume 122 in the series Theater

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839446829

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Wolfgang Schneider (Prof. Dr.) is chairman of the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., personal member of the German UNESCO Commission, tutor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, member of the federal board of the Cultural Forum of Social Democracy as well as of the board of Initiative für die Archive des Freien Theaters e.V., honorary member of ASSITEJ Germany and Switzerland, and honorary president of Internationale Vereinigung des Theaters für Kinder und Jugendliche. He was the founding director of the Department for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim and holder of the UNESCO chair »Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development«. He was the first director of Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrum in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, chairman of the theater advisory board of Lower Saxony, member of the dance and theater advisory board of the Goethe-Institut, and rapporteur as an expert member of the Enquete commission »Culture in Germany« of the German Bundestag. In 2018 he was awarded the First Class Federal Cross of Merit.
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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Theatre in Transformation. Foreword of the editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Prologue: Time to take stock?. The Role of Theatre in Transformation Rolf C. Hemke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Theatre in Transformation. The history
Arts and Culture in South Africa. Taking Centre Stage on the Globe from Colonialism, Fascism, Apar theid and Beyond Mongane W. Serote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Pinholes against apartheid. A Brief History of Political Theatre in South Africa Joachim Fiebach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Theatre of Resistance. The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s Motsumi Makhene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
The Unequal Brothers. The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres Adrienne Sichel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Transformation in Theatre. The discourse
The performing arts as a social force. South Africa’s post-apar theid theatre in the process of transformation Wolfgang Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
“Taking meat to the knives”. Report of the panel discussion “Political Power of Theatre – Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa” Lebogang L. Nawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play?. Report of the panel discussion “The State of Theatre in Soweto” Lebogang L. Nawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Soul food. South Africa’s theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role Henning Fülle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Theatre for Protest. The political dimension
The 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Political Theatre and Cultural Activism in the Free State Province, South Africa. The vacuum lef t by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko Montshiwa K. Moshounyane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre Janine Lewis and Katlego Chale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Theatre for Young Audiences. The Art of Education
Between Traditional Practise and Contemporary Forms. Theatre for Young Audiences in (South-) Africa Yvette Hardie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The ideal of a Rainbow Nation 1. What Theatre Arts and Cultural Policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa Julius Heinicke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Cradle of Creativity. Cape Town was the Capital of Theatre for Young Audiences Wolfgang Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Who’s saying what about whom? South Africa’s next generation is on a quest for its own identity Theresa Frey, Petra Jeroma and Johanna Kraft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Township Theatre Making. An Ethnographic Study about a Developmental Tool for Khayelitsha Youth Ongezwa Mbele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Freedom of Expression. Perspectives on the Performing Arts
From “Playing” to “Working”. Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of Theatre in South Africa Motsumi Makhene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Staring Dispassionately into the Abyss. Director and Author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto Rolf C. Hemke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Theatre Development and Cultural Policy in Rural Areas. A grassroots perspective from Nor th West Province, South Africa Sefako Bethuel Mohlomi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Are we actually deeply enough… …with these socio-political questions in our theatres? Khayelihle Dom Gumede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Scratching the Wounds of the Past. A Playwright-Director’s Note on the Play – Silent Scars Calvin Ratladi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre. The case of Mmabana Ar ts Culture Spor ts and Foundation, North West Province Obakeng Kgwasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl. South Africa’s sociological theatre landscape Refilwe Madumo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Epilogue: Theatre and the post-apartheid condition Mike van Graan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Authors List Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 258
Keywords: Transformation Processes; Cultural Policy; Theatre; Culture; Politics; Theatre Studies; Africa

eBook

Published: February 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839446829