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A critical inquiry into the evolution of socio-political performances in traditional Nigeria Yoruba Alarinjo and contemporary itinerant theatre through a review of selected works of Hubert Ogunde, Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi and Femi Osofisan
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the evolution of socio-political theatre and drama performances in Nigeria. The first part consists of the introduction, theory and historical contexts, while the second part discusses ... -
Reclaiming cultural space through performance : the intercultural activities of the Ghana Dance Ensemble (1964-2013)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the intercultural practices of the Ghana Dance Ensemble (GDE) from 1964 to 2014. Intercultural performance, often defined as an intentional artistic encounter between diverse ... -
Finding balance : a study of the text and context of two Afrikaans festival comedy scripts
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores two critically acclaimed Afrikaans festival comedies, which are situational and predominantly located in a specific time and place, and the question how they can gain continuity in the ... -
Intellek en impuls : ’n studie van die akteur se intellektuele fakulteite
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Acting is not normal behaviour: during everyday life, man is relatively unaware of the functioning of his organism. The art of acting, however, requires the actor to reorganise his being to produce seemingly ... -
A road map for devising : in search of comprehensive teaching resources for secondary school drama teachers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the creative collaborative strategies characteristic of South African Workshop Theatre and Devised Theatre. The motivation for this study was to create a possible roadmap that the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
'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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“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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