Theatre and Cultural Struggle Under Apartheid Contributor(s): Kavanagh, Robert Mshengu (Author), Steadman, Ian (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 178360980X ISBN-13: 9781783609802 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - History | Modern - 20th Century |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.84 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this book, South African performer and activist Robert Mshengu Kavanagh reveals the complex and conflicting interplay of class, nation and race in South African theatre under Apartheid. Evoking an era when theatre itself became a political battleground, Kavanagh displays how the struggle against Apartheid was played out on the stage as well as on the streets. Kavanagh's account spans three very different areas of South African theatre, with the author considering the merits and limitations of the multi-racial theatre projects created by white liberals; the popular commercial musicals staged for black audiences by emergent black entrepreneurs; and the efforts of the Black Consciousness Movement to forge a distinctly African form of revolutionary theatre in the 1970s. The result is a highly readable, pioneering study of the theatre at a time of unprecedented upheaval, diversity and innovation, with Kavanagh's cogent analysis demonstrating the subtle ways in which culture and the arts can become an effective means of challenging oppression. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kavanagh, Robert Mshengu: - Robert Mshengu Kavanagh played an active part in the development of South African theater in the 1970s through his participation in Experimental Theatre Workshop '71 in Johannesburg, and as founding editor of S'ketsh', a magazine covering black and non-segregated theater in South Africa. |