Magister Artium - MA / Scholarship on theatre in South Africa has shown how under the Apartheid government
theatrical practices were divided into different genres such as protest theatre, township
theatre, black theatre, mainstream theatre etc. In many ways theatre today presents the same
fractures and polarisations: community and mainstream theatre. This study investigates ways
in which black theatre artists from marginalised and disadvantaged communities with and
without formal training negotiate themselves within theatre spaces in Cape Town. Discussing
and analyzing the works and the trajectories of two case-studies: the Ukwanda Puppet and
Design Company and the Back Stage Theatre Production Company, I attempt to demonstrate
how works of arts that awkwardly sits with labels such as “community” or “mainstream”
theatre are emerging more and more in the Cape Town theatre scene.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7550 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Sikhafungana, Zuko Wonderfull |
| Contributors | Forte, Jung Ran Annachiara |
| Publisher | University of Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of Western Cape |
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