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Theatre and Performance in Alternative Histories of Steve Biko's Death in Detention
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The BBC reconstruction of the inquest with a well-known actor who played Sydney Kentridge, which I said that he was not as good as Sydney, they should have had Sydney play himself as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
I still thought [Biko] was shamming. I had had experience before with this tendency.—Colonel Goosen, 1977 inquestThere was also a BBC reconstruction of the inquest with a well-known actor who played Sydney Kentridge—which I said that he wasn't as good as Sydney Kentridge, they should have had Sydney play himself.—George Bizos, 13 May 2008read more
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Review: Catherine Cole, "Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition"
TL;DR: Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition Catherine M. Cole as discussed by the authors Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2010, 227 pp. + xxvii (pbk) 978-0-253-22145-2
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In township tonight!: South Africa's Black city music and theatre
TL;DR: In "In Township Tonight!" as mentioned in this paper, Coplan's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theater established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985.
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Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, South African performer and activist Robert Mshengu Kavanagh reveals the complex and conflicting interplay of class, nation and race in South African theatre under Apartheid.
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The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910
TL;DR: The Drama of South Africa as discussed by the authors comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from 1910, when the country came into official existence, to the advent of post-apartheid.
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Theatres of struggle and the end of apartheid
TL;DR: The Failure of the State and the Bounded Revolt as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the history of the United States of America, which describes the private Utopia and the nationalism and theatricality of nationalism.