Forays Into Contemporary South African Theatre

Devising New Stage Idioms
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41445-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 211, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

In the years that followed the end of apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable productivity, which resulted in a process of constant aesthetic reinvention. After 1994, the “protest” theatre template of the apartheid years morphed into a wealth of diverse forms of stage idioms, detectable in the works of Greg Homann, Mike van Graan, Craig Higginson, Lara Foot, Omphile Molusi, Nadia Davids, Magnet Theatre, Rehane Abrahams, Amy Jephta, and Reza de Wet, to cite only a few prominent examples. Marc and Jessica Maufort’s multivocal edited volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms. This book’s underlying assumption is that creolization reflects the processes of identity renegotiation in contemporary South Africa and their multi-faceted theatrical representations.

Contributors: Veronica Baxter, Marcia Blumberg, Vicki Briault Manus, Petrus du Preez, Paula Fourie, Craig Higginson, Greg Homann, Jessica Maufort, Marc Maufort, Omphile Molusi, Jessica Murray, Jill Planche, Ksenia Robbe, Mathilde Rogez, Chris Thurman, Mike van Graan, and Ralph Yarrow.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Maufort, Marc

Maufort, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1 A Fraught Process: Devising New Stage Idioms for Post-apartheid South Africa

Marc and Jessica Maufort

Part 1: Playwrights’ Perspectives

2 On Black and White: Staging South African Identities after Apartheid

Greg Homann

3 Being in Two Places at the Same Time

Craig Higginson

4 Theatre of the Native Tongue

Omphile Molusi

5 Transformation and the Post-apartheid Condition: The Collision of Policy and Imagination in South African Theatre

Mike van Graan

Part 2: Dramatic, Theatrical and Performance Reconfigurations

6 Performing Athol Fugard’s Outsider Art in The Road to Mecca and The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek: Transformative Art Defies Percepticide

Marcia Blumberg

7 Alluring Voices from the Page to the Stage: Literary Characters and the Question of the ‘Real’ in Reza de Wet’s Verleiding

Petrus du Preez

8 From the Stage to the Page: Trauma, Reconciliation and Remembering in Craig Higginson’s Dream of the Dog andThe Dream House

Mathilde Rogez

9 South African Theatre and the Politics of the Improvisatory

Ralph Yarrow

10 The Fault-Lines of Idiom: New Thematic and Stylistic Trends in the Plays of Allan Kolski Horwitz

Vicki Briault Manus

11 Revisiting the Past, Imagining the Future: Aesthetic of Creolization in Post-apartheid South African Drama

Marc Maufort

Part 3: Female Playwriting

12 Intimate Exposure: Solo Women Performing in Post-apartheid South Africa

Veronica Baxter

13 Recuperating Historical Narratives of Violence and Dislocation in Rehane Abrahams’ What the Water Gave Me

Jill Planche

14 Female Interventions in Contemporary South African Drama and Performance: An Analysis of Selected Work by Women Artists

Jessica Murray

15 An Unfinished Homecoming: Postmemory, Place and New Practices of Politicisation in the Plays of Nadia Davids and Amy Jephta

Ksenia Robbe

Part 4: Creolization: From the Cape to Transnational Vistas

16 ‘Dis Nie Myne Nie, Dis Nie Joune Nie’ or Kramer and Petersen’s Ghoema: Inscribing the Past, Claiming the Present?

Paula Fourie

17 Shakespeare versus Shakespeare: Notes on Theatre-Making from Belgium to South Africa

Chris Thurman

Index of Names and Literary Works

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Maufort, PhD (1986), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), is Professor of Anglophone literatures at that university. He has authored and (co)-edited several books on English-language drama. He is the current editor of Recherche littéraire/Literary Research.

Jessica Maufort holds a PhD (2018) in postcolonial literatures from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has published essays in Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment and AJE: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology.