Kapitel in diesem Buch

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