Cape Town’s Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, as well as perspectives from performers, artists and scholars, this book analyses Magnet’s many productions and presents a rich compendium of the work of one of the most vital physical theatre companies in Africa.

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For three decades, Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has served as a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, this book analyses Magnet's many productions and presents a rich compendium of their work.

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Chapter 1 - Plotting the Magnetic Field: Origins and Trajectories
Megan Lewis and Anton Krueger Chapter 2 - Making Space for Ideas: The Knowledge Work of Magnet Theatre
Mark Fleishman Chapter 3 - An Activist Company Inventing a Future:
A Conversation with Neo Muyanga Chapter 4 - ‘Being There’: The Evolution of Performance Aesthetics from Medea (1994–96) to The Magnet Theatre ‘Migration’ Plays (2012)
Miki Flockemann Chapter 5 - The Full Gamut of an Ideal Company:
A Conversation with Jay Pather Chapter 6 - The Implacable Grandeur of the Stranger: Ruminations on Fear and Familiarity in Die Vreemdeling [The Stranger] (2010)
Anton Krueger Chapter 7 - Theatre That Can Organize, Mobilize, Conscientize:
A Conversation with Mandla Mbothwe Chapter 8 - Performing the Language of the Body in My Mother Tongue: 
A Conversation with Faniswa Yisa Chapter 9 - Magnet Theatre and the Moving Body
Jennie Reznek Chapter 10 - Ideas Dying to be Born:
A Conversation with Craig Leo Chapter 11 - The Creative Flow of Arresting, Exquisite Fabric:
A Conversation with Illka Louw Chapter 12 - Embodied Practice that Troubles Fixed Narratives of Identity, History and Memory
Yvette Hutchison Magnet’s Recipe for Considered, Chapter 13 - Conscious Theatre-Making:
A Conversation with Frances Marek Chapter 14 - The Performance Labours of Magnet and Jazzart’s Cargo (2007)
Megan Lewis Chapter 15 - Making Space for Community: Magnet Theatre ‘Intervenes’ in Khayelitsha
Gay Morris Chapter 16 - Vividly Feeling the Extremes of Being in the World:
A Conversation with Margie Pankhurst Chapter 17 - By Telling Stories We Can Learn Something from Life:
A Conversation with Thando Doni Chapter 19 - Catalysing a Community: Magnet’s Clanwilliam Community Intervention Project
Lavona de Bruyn Chapter 19 - Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural Dialogue
Elliot Leffler Chapter 20 - Keeping Theatre Alive in the Community:
A Conversation with Zwelakhe Khuse Chapter 21 - Magnet Never Forgets its People:
A Conversation with Nolovuyo Sam
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783205370
Publisert
2016-02-01
Utgiver
Intellect
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
300

Biografisk notat

Megan Lewis is assistant professor of theatre history and dramaturgy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Anton Krueger is a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama at Rhodes University in South Africa.