New Territories

Greg Homann is an independent academic, theatre director, and writer. He is the co-editor of the Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre (2015) as well the editor of At This Stage: Plays from Post-Apartheid South Africa (2009). Homann worked in The Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg as well as at AFDA, The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, Johannesburg. He was the Standard Bank Young Artist Winner for Theatre in 2014. Marc Maufort is Professor of English, American and postcolonial literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Maufort has written and (co-)edited several books on O’Neill as well as postcolonial and multi-ethnic drama, including Transgressive Itineraries. Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (2003), and Labyrinth of Hybridities. Avatars of O’Neillian Realism in Multi-ethnic American Drama (1972–2003) (2010).

Contents: Greg Homann/Marc Maufort: New Territories: Exploring the Post-apartheid Stage – Gay Morris: Ubizo - Voices of elok’shini: Listening Afresh to Theatre Voices from Cape Town’s Townships – Veronica Baxter: Eastern Cape Voices in Post-apartheid Theatre – Chris Thurman: «After Titus»: Towards a Survey of Shakespeare on the Post-apartheid Stage – Greg Homann: Claiming Western Texts for Contemporary South African Theatre: Issues of Relevance and the Dead-end Pursuit of National Identity – Mwenya B. Kabwe: SUN: Composition, Continuum, Choreopoem. A Theatre-making Case Study in Post-apartheid South Africa – Brian Crow: «The Dangerous Side of Writing»: The Post-apartheid Memory Plays of Athol Fugard – Patrick Ebewo: Zakes Mda: The Satirist – Zingi Mkefa: The (New) Playwrights of the (New) Revolution – Petrus du Preez: Re-imagining Space and Identity: A New Generation of Post-apartheid Afrikaans Playwrights – Marcia Blumberg: Staging Miss Julie: Re-Visioning Strindberg – Marc Maufort: Negotiating the Post-apartheid Condition: Violence, Trauma and the Realist Aesthetic in Contemporary South African Drama – Loren Kruger: Reanimating the Ordinary: Walking, Talking and Performing in Johannesburg and Beyond – Anton Krueger/Zoë Reeve: Spectacles of Participation: Performing amaXhosa Authenticity at the National Arts Festival of South Africa – Jay Pather: Laws of Recall: Body, Memory and Site-Specific Performance in Contemporary South Africa.