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Apple girl : ingesting and transforming Apple girl from fairy tale into sculpture and performance

Author: Joubert, Jill Date: 2013 The submission for my Master of Fine Art degree, which is devoted to the interpretation and transformation of the Italian fairy tale, Apple Girl, into performed sculpture, consists of this document as well as a photographic story-book which ... Read more
Chosi Ntsomi! making a Xhosa theatre identity by adapting Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's folktale about a rite of passage for Xhosa girls

Author: Tshazibane, Mfundo Date: 2012 Inspired by the performativity of Xhosa cultural belief systems, my study aims to develop dignified theatrical roles for African women. This essay explores the potential of perceptions of Xhosa cultural women, configured in oral storytelling, ... Read more
Collaborating in No man's land : an enquiry towards creating an environment for 'equal' collaboration between international partners in an applied theatre project

Author: Streek, Katy Date: 2009 This dissertation is an enquiry towards creating an environment for 'equal' collaboration between international partners in an applied theatre project. As a direct case study, I used my master's fieldwork project, No-man's land, a theatre ... Read more
Complex associations : facilitator, host and refugee, a 'round-about' way of drama for inclusion

Author: Hughes, Shannon Date: 2013 This dissertation focuses on the use of drama as a method of fostering inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers living in host communities. It examines two theatrically based studies simultaneously facilitated over a six month period between ... Read more
Considering directors and directing in South Africa

Author: Morris, Gay Date: 2006 This article attempts to address why this focus issue was pursued by the South African Theatre Journal and will begin to investigate what studying directing in our local context has to offer us. Considering the contributions to this issue, ... Read more
A critical analysis of the teaching technique role play, with particular reference to educational drama

Author: Nebe, Warren Date: 1991 This study analyses Role Play teaching techniques employed in Educational Drama and examines the possibility that the current practice of Role Play may actually obstruct the personal and collective empowerment of students, thereby limiting ... Read more
A critical biography of Rosalie van der Gucht : investigating her contribution to education in South Africa with special reference to speech and drama

Author: Morris, Gay Date: 1989 This study attempts to explore the ways in which Rosalie Van der Gucht influenced and contributed to Speech and Drama education during the second half of this century in the Cape. The writer takes the view that although Van der Gucht was not ... Read more
A critical documentation of Mavis Taylor's teaching of improvisation

Author: Calburn, Caroline Date: 1994 This study documents Mavis Taylor's teaching of Improvisation at the University of Cape Town and provides a critical analysis of the improvisational methods she uses in the training of actors. It places her teaching within the wider field of ... Read more
Development, belonging and change : a study of a community theatre-for-development initiative in KwaZulu-Natal

Author: Stockil, Emily Date: 2008 This dissertation seeks to address issues related to community change within the field of Theatre-for development. It proposes and then investigates various ways in which a community may seek to retain a sense of collective ideology in the ... Read more
Devising dialogue : structuring intercultural encounters through the process of workshop theatre

Author: Leffler, Elliot Date: 2008 This dissertation explores the efficacy of workshop theatre processes in nurturing intercultural dialogue among members of a multicultural group. It investigates two kinds of intercultural dialogue - interpersonal dialogue and intergroup ... Read more
Embracing space : reviewing the body-space nexus as a creative tool, inspired by the theories of Rudolph Laban and the Bauhaus movement

Author: Levin, Ruth Date: 2006 My MA in theatre and performance investigates the relationship between the body and space, with a view to using it to generate content and choreography for dance theatre productions. I draw my research from the theories of Rudolph Laban and ... Read more
An exploration of the relationship between applied theatre and community building practice, with specific reference to a teenage pregnancy project in Delft

Author: Sulcas, Gabrielle Reeve Date: 2006 In a developing country such as South Africa, the challenge to locate new, effective methods of social development is key. This study argues that applied theatre has the potential to become a powerful medium for the fulfilment of this aim. ... Read more
Exploring social identity through theatre : an examination of the process of creating Jingle Dreams with youth in the coloured community of Clanwilliam

Author: De Bruyn, Lavona Date: 2008 This dissertation examines the process of creating Jingle Dreams with the youth in Clanwilliam. It aims to ascertain whether the processes of Community Theatre drama create opportunities for the individuals in the identified community to ... Read more
Facilitating engagement with the challenges facing families in which there may be members with special needs : positing a model for theatrical intervention

Author: Pupa, Buntu Date: 2014 The purpose of the study is to investigate the manner in which performance can facilitate communication amongst family members in dealing with the challenges facing families in which there is a member with ‘special needs’. Special needs range ... Read more
Mise en scÃ¨ne as a feminine textual body : making meaning in new plays

Author: Stopford, Clare Date: 2013 This study proceeds from research I have conducted through autobiographical writing, into my experiences of directing untried play texts for first performance. The question of ownership of the meaning conveyed by the play in performance, in ... Read more
A Museum of Bottled Sentiments: the ‘beautiful pain syndrome’ in twenty-first century Black South African theatre making

Author: Mahali, Alude Date: 2014 This study is about contemporary black theatre makers and theatre making in the 'now moment'; this moment of recovery and gradual transition after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. The 'now moment', for these theatre makers, is characterized ... Read more
Own-made in the (post-)new South Africa : a study of theatre originating from selected townships in the vicinity of Cape Town

Author: Morris, Gay Date: 2010 This thesis sets out to develop a framework for the analysis and description of theatre practices evident in selected Cape Town townships during the past six years. Building an account which is both aesthetic and sociological and informed by ... Read more
Playing for keeps : an examination of arepp : Theatre for Life's applied theatre pedagogy with regards to adolescent sexuality

Author: Bilbrough, Gordon Date: 2008 This dissertation examines the particular method developed by arepp: Theatre for Life, a South African Non Governmental Organisation, in its work of providing sexuality and social problem solving life-skills education for adolescents, towards ... Read more
Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre

Author: Ravengai, Samuel Date: 2011 The present study investigates the field of theatre practice that I have chosen to call alternative Zimbabwean theatre through a detailed study of four plays and reference to several others all first performed and written between 1980 and ... Read more
Theatrical bodies and madness: a case study of a theatre playground in a South African forensic psychiatric hospital

Author: Sutherland, Alexandra Date: 2021 This study analyses, over a three-year period, a theatre programme with forensic psychiatric patients and staff at Fort England psychiatric hospital in Grahamstown/Makhanda, South Africa. Framed as a ‘theatrical playground', programme sessions ... Read more

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