South African Theatre as/and Intervention

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Acknowledgements. List of Plates. Marcia BLUMBERG and Dennis WALDER: Introduction. KEYNOTE ADDRESS. Ian STEADMAN: Race, Nationalism and Theatre Reconsidered. PHYSICAL THEATRE. Yvonne BANNING: Speaking Silences: Images of Cultural Difference and Gender in Fleishman and Reznek's Medea. David ALCOCK: Somatic Emphasis in South African Theatre: Intervention in the Body Politic. EARLY FUGARD. Errol DURBACH: 'No time for apartheid': Dancing Free of the System in Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena. Robert LEYSHON: Laughing at the Beginning and Listening at the End: Performing Fugard in the Caribbean. VALLEY SONG AND BEYOND. Kristina STANLEY: Fugard's Theatre of Intervention and Reconciliation: Black and White Aesthetics in Valley Song. Toby SILVERMAN ZINMAN: Valley Song: Fugard Plays It Again. Dennis WALDER: Questions from a White Man Who Listens: The Voices of Valley Song. Jeanne COLLERAN: Lessons for A Fair Country. PERFORMING RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY. Anne FUCHS: The Body of Change and the Changing Body in the Plays of Junction Avenue Theatre Company. Marcia BLUMBERG: Revaluing Women's Storytelling in South African Theatre. Michael ARTHUR: Gay Theatres in South Africa: Peter Hayes, Pogiso Mogwere, and Jay Pather. THEATRE IN/AND EDUCATION. Michael CARKLIN: New Challenges for Theatre in a Reformed System of Education in South Africa. Hazel BARNES: Theatre for Reconciliation: Analysis of a Production of Desire in a South African Drama Studies Department. Bernth LINDFORS: The Rise and Fall of Mbongeni Ngema: The AIDS Play. THEATRE FESTIVALS. Annette COMBRINK: 'The arts festival as healing force' (Athol Fugard): The Role of the Two Major Arts Festivals in a Resurgence of South African Drama. Eckhard BREITINGER: A German Presence at the National Arts Festival: Faustus in Africa and The Good Woman of Sharkville. INTERVIEWS. Works Cited. Contributors. Index.