Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa

Hazel Barnes, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Miki Flockemann, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Shannon Elizabeth Hughes, University of Cape Town, South Africa Amy Jephta, Independent Playwright, South Africa Mwenya B. Kabwe, Independent Theatre Maker, South Africa Pedzisai Maedza, University of Cape Town, South Africa Sara Matchett, University of Cape Town, South Africa Sanjin Mufti?, University of Cape Town, South Africa Awino Okech University of Cape Town, South Africa Samuel Ravengai Wits University, South Africa Jane Taylor, University of Leeds, UK

1. Introduction; Mark Fleishman 2. Dramaturgies of Displacement in the Magnet Theatre Migration Project; Mark Fleishman 3. 'Peel the Wound'– Cape Town as Passage, Threshold, and Dead-End: Performing the Everyday Traumas of Mobility and Dislocation; Miki Flockemann 4. Creating Communitas: The Theatre of Mandla Mbothwe; Mandla Mbothwe and Hazel Barnes 5. Embodiment, Mobility and the Moment of Encounter in Jonathan Nkala's The Crossing; Samuel Ravengai 6. (Re)-membering the Cape and the Performance of Belonging(s); Pedzisai Maedza 7. Uhambo: Pieces of a Dream – Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality; Sara Matchett and Awino Okech 8. Mobility, Migration and 'Migritude' in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and All Points in Between; Mwenya Kabwe Mamma Africa: A Theatre of Inclusion, Hope(lessness) and Protest; Shannon Elizabeth Hughes 9. On Familiar Roads: The Fluidity of Cape Coloured Experiences and Expressions of Migration and Reclamation in the Performances of the Kaapse Klopse in CapeTown; Amy Jephta 10. Tall Horse, Tall Stories ; Jane Taylor 11. Playtext: The Life and Work of Petrovi? Petar; Sanjin Mufti? Works Cited Index