Drama for a New South Africa
Title | Drama for a New South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | David Graver |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780253335708 |
"... 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.
The Drama of South Africa
Title | The Drama of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Kruger |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134680864 |
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.
New South African Plays
Title | New South African Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Beverley Naidoo |
Publisher | Aurora Metro Publications Ltd. |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1910798894 |
A collection of six plays dealing with the new South Africa, published in 2006 to celebrate 10 years of democracy post-apartheid. Plays about racial conflict, the impact of AIDS, power and corruption, the legacy of the past and female identity. Reprinted 2012, 2019. The Plays The Playground by Beverly Naidoo “...it floats on a haunting, echoing raft of traditional South African harmonies that make watching it a joyful experience as well as a thought-provoking one...” Time Out Critics’ Choice – Pick of the Year Taxi by Sibusiso Mamba: Edinburgh fringe first winner “a superbly written and produced play... A fine piece of work that’s refreshingly free of cliches.” Daily Mail, Pick of the Week Green Man Flashing by Mike Van Graan “...This finely crafted drama tears at the heart and soul of our democracy, and rips at the underbelly of corruption and political power through its astute writing...” Star Tonight Rejoice by James Whylie “... the cruellest irony of all is left until the end... the same one which has spelled the death of Rejoice... And millions more.” Friends of BBC Radio 3 What the Water Gave Me by Rehane Abrahams “tales that retrieve ancient magics and reveal contemporary terrors...” Cape Times To House by Ashwin Singh: Finalist in the 2003 PANSA (Performing Arts Network of SA) Festival of Reading of New Writing (the country’s foremost playwriting contest) “To House is an important piece of theatre; in it people voice opinions that are uncomfortable and edgy. The cathartic and therapeutic value of hearing these things said aloud in a public place is part of our essential healing process and proves, once again, that art has the ability to go where angels fear to tread.” Daily News, Durban
Drama and the South African State
Title | Drama and the South African State PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Orkin |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literature and state |
ISBN | 9780719025778 |
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
Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre
Title | Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2019-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004414460 |
After the end of Apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable process of constant aesthetic reinvention. This multivocal volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms.
Experiments in Freedom
Title | Experiments in Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Anton Krueger |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2009-10-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1443816116 |
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.
The Free State
Title | The Free State PDF eBook |
Author | Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2012-07-31 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1849436088 |
This powerful version of Chekhov’s famous drama reflects the South African phenomenon of the 1990s. With the hindsight of the new millennium we can look back and see that the miracle did happen. The new order did take over from the old. The fruitless cherry orchard was chopped down. The old men who couldn't move with the times have been left behind and forgotten. Chekhov's great pre-revolutionary drama, dreaming of youthful energy replacing the worn-out inertia of a dying world, lends itself vividly to this new setting in post-revolutionary South Africa.