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Within between : an investigation on intermediality in the Malawian and South African theatre context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the state of African theatre in the age of new media and digital technology. Through the engagement with current literature, the researcher found that the concept of intermediality ...
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Transposing from screen to stage : creating and implementing an analitical framework for incidental music during a theatre production
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the untrodden field of incidental music in theatre was inspected. Due to the lack of resources in this field, techniques used in film music were applied to incidental music in theatre due ...
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Using the alchemical Magnum Opus as a guideline for creative writing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The practice of creative writing is challenging the individual due to the lack of confidence in ability as well as a lack of systematic direction of how to approach the project. Like writing, alchemy ...
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An investigation into the motives of filicidal mothers in selected plays
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Maternal filicide is a rare crime perpetrated for a number of reasons. It is a complex multifactorial phenomenon with psychiatric, psychological and environmental factors combining to create fertile ground ...
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The life and work of Yvonne Bryceland : an arts-based investigation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation spotlights South African actress and theatre practitioner Yvonne Bryceland, who earned respect and admiration during her lifetime but has largely been marginalised in South African ...
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After the megamusical : exploring the intimate form
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The megamusical has become one of the most popular performance forms, with productions such as The Phantom of the Opera (1986) and The Lion King (1997) running profitably for decades. In South Africa, ...
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Exploring some of Cicely Berry’s voice and language exercises for a directing concept of Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to explore how using voice practitioner and writer, Cicely Berry’s, exercises and language strategies on sound and text, could lead to finding a directing concept for the play ...
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Staging the criminalised society : contemporary South African theatre's response to the social insecurity caused by violent crime in South Africa over the past decade (2002 - 2012)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The potential to fall victim to violent crime is an ever-present threat in contemporary South African society that many South Africans have resigned themselves to. It is also one of the few aspects of ...
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Self-reflexive online documentation in the films Catfish, Four eyed monsters and We live in public
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is widely held that the documentary mode of filmmaking is a subjective endeavor. Bill Nichols identifies an unspoken contract between the viewer and the filmmaker, that what is seen is to be believed. ...
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'n Historiese oorsig van die Libertas Teaterklub met spesifieke fokus op sleutelfigure en produksies vanaf 1960 tot 1989
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study documents the history of the Libertas Theatre Club from the time of its founding in 1960 up to 1989. All the full-length productions produced by the Libertas Theatre Club, important events, as ...
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Serious play : exploring the ethical tensions of license and limits in drama, theatre and performance education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Broad global trends evidence the need for improving ethics in a variety of disciplines. The general education codes do not address the unique culture specific to teaching and learning drama, theatre ...
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Contact improvisation as a foundational learning tool for contemporary performers : singular complexity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This artistic research dissertation employs the principles and practices of contact improvisation in a literary performative to describe and demonstrate this somatic form’s potential as a complex system ...
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The Conradie Codec : the recoding of meaning in four of my stage adaptations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I attempted to analyse the four adaptations I created between 2004 and 2010. The first two products (texts and productions) were created in 2004 and 2005, while I was a student at the ...
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Die verteenwoordiging van die Kaapse Kleurling-identiteit soos gesien in At her feet, Die Joseph en Mary affair en Bullets over Bishop Lavis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this research I investigated, with specific references to the three dramas, the ways in which the Coloured and his community were represented in the post-apartheid theatre. I examined identity formation ...
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“Griekeland” to “Platteland”: appropriating the Euripidean Medea for the contemporary Afrikaans stage
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Euripides’s Medea have been staged a number of times in the new South Africa. This study’s purpose is to provide a practical example of a rewritten Medea set in a contemporary Afrikaner community. The ...
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Symbolic interaction and intercultural theatre performance dynamics in Uganda : the case of Makerere Universitys Intercultural Theatre Collaborations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates and examines the dynamics of intercultural theatre practice. Existing scholarship on interculturalism in theatre praxis regards intercultural theatre as a site for bridging ...
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Towards an integrated theory of actor training : conjunctio oppositorum and the importance of dual consciousness
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The proliferation of Western actor training methods in the past century had mainly been derived from the groundbreaking research undertaken by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Constantin Stanislavski at ...
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Die ontwikkeling en huidige aard van musiekblyspele in Suid-Afrika
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The musical is one of the many forms of musical theatre and consists of certain qualities that define the genre. This form developed out of various genres en there are many approaches and definitions for ...
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Developing a potential youth festival model to aid and develop the theatre for young people industry in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the phenomena of theatrical events and festivalisations, specifically aimed at young people. Various methodologies on theatrical events and festivalisation are integrated ...
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Investigating a personalised site-specific approach to performance : selected origins, possible influences and practical implications
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Central to a site-specific approach to performance is the concern for the potential of unconventional spaces. Appearing in multiple mediums, there seems to be little clarity on the parameters of this ...
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The significance of editing techniques in the adaptation of play texts into film
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis sets out to provide comparative analyses of selected play texts and their film adaptations in order to demonstrate the significant role that editing techniques play in translating the play ...
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When the known world dissolves : representations of the white male on the South African stage in the transitional years (1980-2000)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the representation of the white male character in various South African plays from the period 1980–2000, a time when South Africa was experiencing severe changes and upheavals as a ...
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Towards the Family's Salvation : examining the displacement of the (F)ather in selected religious family dramas of Ibsen and Strindberg resulting in the creation of a new text
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, inciting debate surrounding the validity of the Christian creation narrative. Prior to this, the Adam and Eve creation narrative ...
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Television theatre : investigating the possibility of a translation of Afrikaans theatre to screen
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African theatre and especially Afrikaans theatre has become increasingly dependent on the annual arts festivals. These events only last for a week at a time and most productions are unable to make ...
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Die funksies en vereistes van die resensiewese in ’n veranderende bedryf : teaterkritiek en die nuwe media
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the role and function of theatre critics and reviews in the industry at present. Characteristics of a good review are also examined and the role of the traditional review in the ‘new ...
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Die ontwikkeling van kritiese denke deur die gebruik van drama as onderrigmetode binne die vak Lewensorientering
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Critical theory forms part of the foundation of the South African school curriculum. The development of critical thinking is part of the general aims of the curriculum. This study will investigate the ...
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’n Ondersoek na toegepaste teater as medium vir gemeenskapsontwikkeling in die Stellenbosch-omgewing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this research paper an investigation into applied theatre as medium for community development in the Stellenbosch area is conducted. An initial investigation was launched to determine whether there ...
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Visual music : a study on the role of music in South African children’s television programmes from 1976 − 1994
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is aimed at providing useful insights into the field of audiovisual perception and understanding in South African children’s programmes, as well as demonstrating how the Congruence-Associationist ...
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Die funksie van musiek in die musiekblyspel en die kabaret
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Empirical studies have shown that music has a determinable effect on human emotions. In this study, the function of music is analysed in terms of how it functions in the musical and the cabaret as genres. ...
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Order through improvisation : engaging the choreographic environment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the field of choreography, there are many different emerging theories and methodologies. One such theory uses the individual and unique performers to create and generate movement vocabulary. For the ...
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