Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre —— Devising New Stage Idioms

----- 涉足当代南非剧院：设计新阶段的风格

ISBN: 9789004414457 出版年：2019 页码：362 Marc Maufort Jessica Maufort Brill

In the years that followed the end of apartheid, south african theatre was characterized by a remarkable productivity, which resulted in a process of constant aesthetic reinvention. After 1994, the "protest" theatre template of the apartheid years morphed into a wealth of diverse forms of stage idioms, detectable in the works of greg homann, mike van graan, craig higginson, lara foot, omphile molusi, nadia davids, magnet theatre, rehane abrahams, amy jephta, and reza de wet, to cite only a few prominent examples. Marc and jessica maufort's multivocal edited volume documents some of the various ways in which the "rainbow" nation has forged these innovative stage idioms. This book's underlying assumption is that creolization reflects the processes of identity renegotiation in contemporary so