Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In this study theatre, as staged performance and as text, will be used as an exploratory and discursive tool to examine the negotiation of Coloured identity in the 'New South Africa'.I investigate debates on Coloured identity while also drawing on theories of the performativity of identity.The role of performance in negotiating this identity is foregrounded; this provides a context for a case study which evaluates responses by Coloured and Black students at the University of the Western Cape to popular Coloured identity-related performances.These include Marc Lottering's 'Crash' and 'From the Cape Flats With Love', and Petersen, Isaacs and Reisenhoffer's 'Joe Barber' and 'Suip'.These works, both as texts and as performance, will be used to analyse the way stereotypical representations of Coloured identities are played with, subverted or negotiated in performance.I attempt to establish how group stereotypes are constructed within the performance arena, and question whether attitudes can be negotiated through encounters with performance.I wish to thank: Dr. Miki Flockemann for her outstanding supervision and support.Any faults within this work are most likely due to my not following her always excellent instruction.Ms. Heidi Sauls for pushing me to go further, with everything, while standing behind me; and Joao for proving that different is more than just okay.Also, Mr. Geoffrey Louw for his
Author: Gino Fransman
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2141846566