The Merry Wives Of Zuma
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The Merry Wives Of Zuma
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language : en
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Release Date : 2012
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The Merry Wives Of Zuma
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Author : Pieter-Dirk Uys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Merry Wives Of Zuma written by Pieter-Dirk Uys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with South Africa categories.
Playwright's note: The success of MacBeki has inspired yet another PDU assault on the legacy of the greatest English dramatist in history. William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is not gifted with as obvious a guide track to local political farce as Macbeth was. There the eternal struggle of power versus leadership, of lust versus love, of good versus interesting lent itself well to the drama being played out on our political road to the ANC 2007 Congress in Polokwane. That lead to the in-house coup that said a loud 'Ta Ta' to Thabo and the exit of President Mbeki. The universal enjoyment of MacBeki at the Market Theatre from a rainbow South African audience of all ages and political persuasions made a theatre piece inspired by the many wives of President Jacob Zuma inevitable. But not easy. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy of bad manners including love and marriage, jealousy and revenge, social class and wealth, explored with irony, sexual innuendo, sarcasm and stereotypical views of classes and nationalities. The text of the The Merry Wives of Zuma, not just a local version of the Shakespeare opus, is grounded in what could be seen as a comedy of bad moves. It was conceived and structured on the long winding road to Mangaung - the December 2012 ANC Congress where, as in Polokwane, the next leader of the ANC is elected. If Jacob Zuma wins a second term and stays the country's president till 2014, this play will also win a new breath of topicality till that general election. If not, the story can still stand on its feet, as it is not essentially about Jacob Zuma and his four wives. It is about a town in South Africa like so many towns, adjusting to a new name and local government of the people by the people, but not necessarily for the people. The mayor and his town council manipulate the ups and downs of municipal corruptions and eruptions. There is the intrigue of lust and love, the chess game of marriage and morality, of greedy fads and garish fashions. A rainbow of vibrant emotions, which is also a comedy about serious issues: freedom, opinion, commitment, transparency and truth, all bundled together as political pantomime.
Prismatic Performances
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Author : April Sizemore-Barber
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Prismatic Performances written by April Sizemore-Barber and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Performing Arts categories.
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the “Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world.” This national rainbow notably extended beyond the bounds of racial coexistence and reconciliation to include “sexual orientation” as a protected category in the Bill of Rights. Yet despite the promise of equality and dignity, the new government’s alliance with neoliberal interests and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic left South Africa an increasingly unequal society. Prismatic Performances focuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa’s self-image and its lived realities. It argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa’s post-apartheid identity are negotiated. The book spans 30 years of cultural production and numerous social locations and includes: a team of black lesbian soccer players who reveal and redefine the gendered and sexed limitations of racialized “Africanness;” white gay performers who use drag and gender subversion to work through questions of racial and societal transformation; black artists across the arts who have developed aesthetics that place on display their audiences’ complicity in the problem of sexual violence; and a primarily heterosexual panAfrican online soap opera fandom community who, by combining new virtual spaces with old melodramatic tropes allow for extended deliberation and new paradigms through which African same-sex relationships are acceptable. Prismatic Performances contends that when explicitly queer bodies emerge onto public stages, audiences are made intimately aware of their own bodies’ identifications and desires. As the sheen of the New South Africa began to fade, these performances revealed the inadequacy and, indeed, the violence, of the Rainbow Nation as an aspirational metaphor. Simultaneously they created space for imagining new radical configurations of belonging.
The Methuen Drama Guide To Contemporary South African Theatre
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Author : Martin Middeke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-19
The Methuen Drama Guide To Contemporary South African Theatre written by Martin Middeke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Performing Arts categories.
South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy. This volume considers the variety of theatre forms, and the work of the major playwrights and theatre makers producing work in democratic South Africa. It offers an overview of theatre pioneers and theatre forms in Part One, before concentrating on the work of individual playwrights in Part Two. Through its wide-ranging survey of indigenous drama written predominantly in the English language and the analysis of more than 100 plays, a detailed account is provided of post-apartheid South African theatre and its engagement with the country's recent history. Part One offers six overview chapters on South African theatre pioneers and theatre forms. These include consideration of the work of artists such as Barney Simon, Mbongeni Ngema, Phyllis Klotz; the collaborations of William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company; the work of Magnet Theatre, and of physical and popular community theatre forms. Part Two features chapters on twelve major playwrights, including Athol Fugard, Reza de Wet, Lara Foot, Zakes Mda, Yaël Farber, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Mike van Graan and Brett Bailey. It includes a survey of emerging playwrights and significant plays, and the book closes with an interview with Aubrey Sekhabi, the Artistic Director of the South African State Theatre in Pretoria. Written by a team of over twenty leading international scholars, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre is a unique resource that will be invaluable to students and scholars from a range of different disciplines, as well as theatre practitioners.
Contemporary Farce On The Global Stage
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Author : David Gram
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-09
Contemporary Farce On The Global Stage written by David Gram and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-09 with Performing Arts categories.
Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce has evolved in the 21st century. Often dismissed as frivolous, farce speaks a universal language, with the power to incisively interrogate our world through laughter. Unlike farces of the past, where a successful resolution was a given and we could laugh uproariously at adulterous behaviour, farce no longer guarantees an audience a happy ending where everything works out. Contemporary farce is no longer ‘diverting us’ with laughter. It is reflecting the fractured world around us. With a foreword by award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, the book introduces readers to the Mechanics of Farce, and the ‘Four Ps,’ which are key elements for understanding, appreciating, and exploring the form. The Five Doors to Contemporary Farce identify five major categories into which farces fall. Behind each door are a wide selection of plays, modern and contemporary examples from all over the world, written by a diverse group of playwrights who traverse gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Supplementing each section are comments, observations, and reflections from award-winning playwrights, directors, actors, designers, dramaturgs, and scholars. Designed specifically to give theatre-makers a rounded understanding that will underpin their own productions, this book will also be of use to theatre and performance studies students.
The Routledge Companion To Applied Performance
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Author : Tim Prentki
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
The Routledge Companion To Applied Performance written by Tim Prentki and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Performing Arts categories.
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.
Merry Wives
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Author : Mark Dunster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-12-01
Merry Wives written by Mark Dunster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-01 with categories.
Opera In London
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Author : Theodore Fenner
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1994
Opera In London written by Theodore Fenner and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
Theodore Fenner’s Opera in London offers a vivid portrait of the operatic and cultural life of a London under the influence of Romanticism as perceived by the English press and the public who viewed the performances. In part 1, Fenner discusses the rise of the periodical press in early nineteenth-century London and the critics of these publications who reviewed opera performances, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Fenner lists in the appendixes for part 1 the leading periodicals—including the Althenaeum, Examiner, and Spectator,— the critics, and reviews by leading critics. Fenner, in part 2, examines the productions of Italian opera in London at the King’s Theatre, including the problems in theatre management and financing; the varied nature of the audience; the operas and performances— those that were popular and those that failed in the words of the critics and the responses of the audience; the singers; and themes and attitudes of the period as expressed by the critics. In part 3, Fenner explores the same topics for the English operas presented at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other playhouses. Parts 2 and 3 also contain extensive appendixes listing seasonal and annual performances and reviews, productions by composers and by librettists, comic and serious productions, operas by known playwrights, and minor singers. Forty-eight illustrations of singers, critics, performances, composers, and theatres add to the richness of this study.
The Merry Wives Of Windsor Overture
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Author : Otto Nicolai
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
The Merry Wives Of Windsor Overture written by Otto Nicolai and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Overtures categories.
Reviewing Shakespeare
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Author : Paul Prescott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-24
Reviewing Shakespeare written by Paul Prescott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-24 with Drama categories.
Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.