Any color of the rainbow - as long as it's gray: dramatic learning spaces in postapartheid South Africa

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Title:	Any color of the rainbow - as long as it's gray: dramatic learning spaces in postapartheid South Africa
Author:	Prentki, Tim
Year:	2008
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	51
Issue:	3
Pages:	91-106
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	theatre development politics
External link:	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v051/51.3.prentki.pdf
Abstract:	This article addresses the issue of the relationship between contemporary South African politics and the type of socially committed theatre that might be capable of mounting a critique of those politics. The author highlights the contradictions between the aspirations of the Freedom Charter and the realities of subscribing to the neoliberal world order, notably the conditions of IMF loans. His contention is that any theatre form that is seeking cultural intervention must find a way of representing contradiction if it is to remain true to the experiences of its audiences and its participants. Such a representation can be achieved through a combination of Bertolt Brecht's counterhegemonic strategies and the practical, participatory social analyses of Theatre for Development, which themselves draw upon aspects of the antiapartheid resistance theatre. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]