Masters Degrees (Drama)
Recent Submissions
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Filled nothingness : hearing silence onstage
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to address the question of how silence can be defined and applied as a communicative device in theatre. The study consists of a theoretical and a practical component. The theoretical ... -
Mission : Heartstone – creating a physical theatre performance by incorporating South African sign language
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sign Language awareness is rapidly increasing throughout the world. One reason for this is the constant attempt to incorporate Sign Language into political, social and cultural spaces. South Africa is ... -
Knowledge production through artistic research : the structure and embodiment of creative action in theatre making
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The artistic research conducted during the respective phases of this practice-led study is based on a singular theatre-event that evolved through my collaboration with secondary school dramatic arts ... -
Die verwerking van n jeugroman na n verhoogteks teen die agtergrond van kulturele en geografiese verplasings : n gevallestudie aan die hand van Dis ek, Anna
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the notion of intercultural and geographic adaptations within the South African youth theatre context. Initially, the study reflects on international adaptation practices, especially ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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