In September 2019, Mark Fleishman in collaboration with the cast created a postdramatic
performance of Sophocles' tragedy 'Antigone', entitled Antigone (not quite/quiet). One of the …

Dramatists and theatre makers are often drawn to Sophocles' Antigone hence they
reimagine and recruit the Attic tragedy to serve various political and aesthetic purposes. One …

The annual National Arts Festival held in Grahamstown commonly invites attempts to identify
thematic and stylistic trends. Given the diversity of performance styles on offer (including two …

Actor and Character in African Masquerade Performance Page 1 Theatre Research
International Vol. 21 No. 1 pp 59-71 Actor and Character in African Masquerade …

This paper explores the evolving landscape of choreographic research in South Africa,
focusing on the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary choreography and its reliance on …

This article is a theoretical musing around ideas of queer Africanness and performance.
Butler argues that the body is always exposed to other bodies, and the social and political …

These are the ancestral spirits I have inherited from my father, Lucas 'Juba'. I also walk with
oZondi, Nondaba, Gagashe, Luqa, Nhlab'shile, Bhambatha kaMancinza wena owancinza …

A slippery, glittering mess. Enter the heavily darkened Bindery theatre and a seminude,
white male quivers centre-stage in a distinctly marked, cubed performance space. His head …

This paper would like to offer a personal account of my experiences as a practitioner coming
to question notions of research through my involvement with the practice as research …

4 May 2010: Frauke (Caroline Lundblad), Swedish butoh choreographer and performer, and
an exponent of Ankoku Butoh, has arrived to commence rehearsals for her collaboration …