- Title
- Workshop theatre in post-apartheid South Africa : a case study
- Creator
- Copteros, Athina
- ThesisAdvisor
- Gordon, Gary
- Subject
- Theater -- South Africa
- Subject
- Theater -- Political aspects -- South Africa
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2156
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007477
- Description
- This is a qualitative study exploring the use of workshop theatre in post-apartheid South Africa, with the objective of making a contribution to the knowledge-base regarding its use in current times. Workshop theatre is changing in response to a new socio-political reality and emerging trends in theatre practice. The case study, of developing a play on Oystercatchers with a Grahamstown group of artists, revealed the difficulties and challenges of using workshop theatre in this dynamic context. Data collection included a focus group, observation, reflective discussion and in-depth interviews that were analysed in relation to available literature on workshop theatre in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. It is proposed that workshop theatre has continued relevance in post -apartheid South Africa. The process of creating workshop theatre with diverse artists has great potential to transform relationships, address issues of personal identity and to provide an underlying purpose to a workshop theatre -making context.
- Format
- 112 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Drama
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Copteros, Athina
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