"Theatre is not part of our vocabulary": Sipho Sepamla's
provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza
Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of
South African Theatre 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. Building on Loren Kruger's
personal observations of forty years as well as her published
research, A Century of South African Theatre 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.
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