{"product_id":"century-of-south-african-theatre","title":"Century of South African Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla’s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play \u003ci\u003eWoza Albert!,\u003c\/i\u003e prompts the response, yes indeed, it \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA Century of South African Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the impact of theatre and other performances—pageants, concerts, sketches, workshops, and performance art—over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes African responses to pro-British pageants celebrating white Union in 1910, such as the Emancipation Centenary of the abolition of British colonial slavery in 1934 organized by Griffiths Motsieloa and HIE Dhlomo, through anti-apartheid testimonial theatre by Athol Fugard, Maishe Maponya, Gcina Mhlophe, and many others, right up to the present dramatization of state capture, inequality and state violence in today’s unevenly democratic society, where government has promised much but delivered little. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on Loren Kruger’s personal observations of forty years as well as her published research, \u003ci\u003eA Century of South African Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e provides theoretical coordinates from institution to public sphere to syncretism in performance in order to highlight South Africa’s changing engagement with the world from the days of Empire, through the apartheid era to the multi-lateral and multi-lingual networks of the 21st century. The final chapters use the Constitution’s injunction to improve wellbeing as a prompt to examine the dramaturgy of new problems, especially AIDS and domestic violence, as well as the better known performances in and around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Kruger critically evaluates internationally known theatre makers, including the signature collaborations between animator\/designer William Kentridge, and Handspring Puppet Company, and highlights the local and transnational impact of major post-apartheid companies such as Magnet Theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222319878488,"sku":"9781350008014","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350008014_b0dbd974-942a-4c81-89fc-13b2d0a15f4f.jpg?v=1770874247","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/century-of-south-african-theatre","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}