Browsing Masters Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Advisor "Baxter, Veronica."
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Deconstructing the Native/Imagining the Post-Native: Race, Culture and Postmodern Conditions in Brett Bailey’s ‘plays of miracle and wonder’.
(2009)This dissertation combines African philosophical discourses with perspectives on cultural performativity to explore the theme of ‘deconstructing the native’ and ‘imagining the postnative’ through theatre. The dissertation ... -
Drama used against the abuse of women : an investigation with adolescents.
(2001)Women experience abuse from their partners. Adolescent relationship abuse is the main focus of this study. The research intends to create awareness about the abuse of women, research adolescent attitudes and beliefs, ... -
In-yer-face : the shocking Sarah Kane
(2008)Playwright, Sarah Kane emerged as a new voice in British writing in the early 1990s. Her work, recognized most notably for its shocking content, was the source of media hype, and rendered her work, with that of her peers, ... -
Planning a Let's pretend game : games of make-believe : role playing games as devising theatre.
(2005)This dissertation seeks to formulate guidelines for the construction of a Let's Pretend game in order for a group to create a collaborative narrative through pretend play. A Let's Pretend game would provide a system for ... -
Sounding the body's meridian : signifying community and "the body national" in post-apartheid South African theatre.
(2009)Sounding the Body’s Meridian examines the ways in which notions of belonging are constructed through the display of bodies in performance, specifically the registers of private and public body that have been revealed in ... -
Theatre of the imagination : the theatre of Ellis Pearson and Bheki Mkhwane.
(2008)Ellis and Bheki, the KwaZulu-Natal theatre duo of Ellis Pearson and Bheki Mkhwane (hereafter Mkhwane and Pearson), define their theatre as 'Theatre of the Imagination,' a hybrid (Hauptfleisch 1997: 49) of African and ... -
Workshopping the AIDS play with men : an explorative study of four collaboratively created HIV/AIDS plays, with special focus on the problem of gender, masculinity and cultural memory in creating narrative with men in the workshop theatre process.
(2008)This dissertation aims to explore problems of gender, masculinity and cultural memory shared by men in the theatre workshop process through looking at the workshop process of four HIV/AIDS plays. The narrative that evolved ...