Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
Introduction -- Race, nationalism and theatre reconsidered -- Physical theatre -- Speaking silences: images of cultural difference for apartheid': dancing free of the system in Athol Fugard's 'Boesman en Lena' -- Laughing at the beginning and listening at the end: performing Fugard in the Caribbean -- 'Valley song' and beyond -- Fugard's theatre of intervention and reconciliation: black and white aesthetics in 'Valley song' -- 'Valley song': Fugard plays it again -- Questions from a white man who listens: the voices of 'Valley song' -- Lessons for a fair country -- Preforming race, gender and sexuality -- The body of change and the changing body in the plays of Junction Avenue Theatre Company -- Revaluing women's storytelling in South African theatre -- Gay theatres in South Africa: Peter Hayes, Pogiso Mogwere and Jay Pather -- Theatre in/and education -- New challenges for theatre in a reformed system of education in South Africa -- Theatre of reconciliation: analysis of a production of 'Desire' in a South African drama studies department -- The rise and fall of Mbongeni Ngema: the AIDS play -- Theatre festivals -- "The arts festival as healing force' (Athol Fugard): the role of the two major arts festivals in a resurgence of South African drama -- A German presence at the National Arts Festival: 'Faustus in Africa' and 'The good woman of Sharkville' -- Interviews -- 'A voice for the Afrikaner?'. An interview with Athol Fugard by Dennis Walder London, 20 February 1996 -- Fatima Dike and the struggle. An interview by Marcia Blumberg London, May 1996 -- More realities. An interview with Reza de Wet by Marcia Blumberg London, 1 September 1996 -- 'God is in the details'. An interview with Janet Suzman by Dennis Walder London, 20 June 1997.
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Theater and society-- South Africa, Congresses.
Theater-- South Africa-- History-- 20th century, Congresses.