Chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from the time South Africa was established to post-apartheid. Investigates the impact of sketches and manifestos, and the oral preservation of scripts that could not be written.
Drawing on over fifty years of writing, performance, film, architecture, photography, and culture more broadly, Imagining the Edgy City offers a compelling interdisciplinary study of South Africa's largest city.
Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht’, s theatre and politics. Most political theatre critics place Brecht between West and East in the Cold War, and a few have recently explored Brecht’, s impact as a Northern writer on the global South. Loren Kruger is the first to argue that Brecht’, s impact as a political dramatist, director and theoretical writer makes full sense only when seen in a post-imperial fram...
This groundbreaking book is the first to comprehensively chronicle the development of dramatic writing and performance in twentieth century South Africa. Concentrating on pageant and ceremony as well as conventional dramatic literature, Loren Kruger discusses in detail both well-known figures such as Athol Fugard and lesser-known actors, directors and impresarios whom have enriched the theatre of South Africa. "The Drama of South Africa" inves...
