Browsing by Author "Marneweck, Aja"

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    Maladamatjuate and the theatre of difference : staging the female body in South Africa
    (2004) Marneweck, Aja
    In this paper, I investigate contemporary alternative staging strategies that critically and creatively explore representations of women in South African theatre. I interrogate representations of the female body of' difference' and the theatrical interpretation of complex identity in South Africa. Imperative questions are raised around the renegotiation of perceptions of division and stereotype (especially regarding women) in performance in South Africa. I raise crucial questions regarding the empowerment of representations of difference on the stage. Theatre of Difference requires representations that are as critically interrogatory of the socio-political circumstances of female identity as they are intimately concerned with the personal processes of the psyches of individual women.
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    Plot 99 : towards a feminine semiotic : spiritual and sexual emergence(y) in women's puppetry and visual performance
    (2012) Marneweck, Aja; Pather, Jay; Bennett, Jane
    This thesis explores how a multidisciplinary Feminine Semiotics may find expression through the cross-disciplinary medium of puppetry and visual performance. It investigates puppetry's relevance to the developing academic field of Practice as Research in performance. It considers the theoretical and creative applications of this multidisciplinary art form in the innovative Feminine Semiotics of emergence(y) in the production Plot 99.