Description
Cape Town’s Magnet Theatre has been a positive force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance, and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, as well as perspectives from performers, artists, and scholars, this book analyses Magnet’s many productions and presents a rich compendium of the work of one of the most vital physical theatre companies in Africa. Co-publication with UNISA Press.
Co-publication with UNISA Press
Chapter
Part One: Concepts: Making Space for Ideas
Colour Photographs: 1987–2009 C-1
Chapter 2: Making Space for Ideas: The Knowledge Work of Magnet Theatre
Chapter 3: An Activist Company Inventing a Future: A Conversation with Neo Muyanga
Chapter 4: ‘Being There’: The Evolution of Performance Aesthetics from Medea (1994–96) to The Magnet Theatre ‘Migration’ Plays (2012)
Chapter 5: The Full Gamut of an Ideal Company: A Conversation with Jay Pather
Chapter 6: The Implacable Grandeur of the Stranger: Ruminations on Fear and Familiarity in Die Vreemdeling [The Stranger] (2010)
Chapter 7: Theatre That Can Organize, Mobilize, Conscientize: A Conversation with Mandla Mbothwe
Part Two: Collaboration: Making Space for Empbodied Practice
Colour Photographs: 2010–2015 C-17
Chapter 8: Performing the Language of the Body in My Mother Tongue: A Conversation with Faniswa Yisa
Chapter 9: Magnet Theatre and the Moving Body
Chapter 10: Ideas Dying to be Born: A Conversation with Craig Leo
Chapter 11: The Creative Flow of Arresting, Exquisite Fabric: A Conversation with Illka Louw
Chapter 12: Embodied Practice that Troubles Fixed Narratives of Identity, History and Memory
Chapter 13: Magnet’s Recipe for Considered, Conscious Theatre-Making: A Conversation with Frances Marek
Chapter 14: The Performance Labours of Magnet and Jazzart’s Cargo (2007)
Part Three – Community: Making Space for Cultural Interventions
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Chapter 15: Making Space for Community: Magnet Theatre ‘Intervenes’ in Khayelitsha
Chapter 16: Vividly Feeling the Extremes of Being in the World: A Conversation with Margie Pankhurst
Chapter 17: By Telling Stories We Can Learn Something from Life: A Conversation with Thando Doni
Chapter 18: Catalysing a Community: Magnet’s Clanwilliam Community Intervention Project
Chapter 19: Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural Dialogue
Chapter 20: Keeping Theatre Alive in the Community: A Conversation with Zwelakhe Khuse
Chapter 21: Magnet Never Forgets its People: A Conversation with Nolovuyo Sam
Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space
：Three Decades of Making Space
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