The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910

by Kruger,Loren

• ISBN13: 9780415179836
• ISBN10: 0415179831
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-08-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This groundbreaking book is the first to comprehensively chronicle the development of dramatic writing and performance in twentieth century South Africa. Concentrating on pageant and ceremony as well as conventional dramatic literature, Loren Kruger discusses in detail both well-known figures such as Athol Fugard and lesser-known actors, directors and impresarios whom have enriched the theatre of South Africa.The Drama of South Africainvestigates the impact on South African theatre of the American musical, minstrel shows, vaudeville and Black Power. She also highlights the contributions of women, South Asians and other minorities, and concludes with a discussion of the post-apartheid character of South Africa at the end of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

List of figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction: the drama of South Africa	p. 1
The progress of the national pageant	p. 23
New Africans, neocolonial theatre, and "an African national dramatic movement"	p. 48
Country counter city: urbanization, tribalization, and performance under apartheid	p. 72
Dry white seasons: domestic drama and the Afrikaner ascendancy	p. 100
The drama of black consciousnesses	p. 129
Spaces and markets: the place of theatre as testimony	p. 154
Theatre in the interregnum and beyond	p. 191
Notes	p. 217
Glossary	p. 244
References	p. 247
Index	p. 265
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