Abstract
This is a book review of a collection of case studies, interviews, descriptions of exercises and philosophical writing about Phakama, a collaborative, participant-centered and intercultural theatre project for young people. The project originated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and spread across the country and the world to impact young people, their facilitators and their communities from 1996 to 2016. The review discusses the concept of democracy, as represented in the book, and its effect on the practices revealed in its pages. These practices are characterized by two principles that are discussed, with examples, in the review: the principles of mutual dependence and of boundary crossing. Without glossing over the difficulties that may come with such work, freely discussing and acknowledging difficult moments of intercultural interaction, Phakama, the book and the movement, is a testament to 20 years of ground-breaking theatre work that forges a way of working that exemplifies a democratic orientation, giving voice to a kaleidoscope of perspectives.
Highlights
This is a book review of a collection of case studies, interviews, descriptions of exercises and philosophical writing about Phakama, a collaborative, participantcentered and intercultural theatre project for young people
The book takes its title from a collaborative, participant-centered and intercultural theatre project for young people with this name, that originated in Johannesburg South Africa and spread across the country and the world to impact young people, their facilitators and their communities from 1996 to 2016
The project arose at a time when South Africa awoke as a new democracy, and it hopes to have an impact through the book to reawaken and arise in a different form to impact the current political and social environment across the world
Summary
This is a book review of a collection of case studies, interviews, descriptions of exercises and philosophical writing about Phakama, a collaborative, participantcentered and intercultural theatre project for young people. While the book Phakama is by no means about democracy and democratic practice as such, it does position itself in relation to the concept of democracy, refers to democratic practices from time to time and clearly acknowledges its relationship to the political context of the new South African democracy as one that has influenced its origins when people were still “raw with the trauma of generations of violence, abuse and inequality while hopeful for the possibilities of a new political future”
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