Piecing together a girlhood: using ‘girlfriend play’ as method to perform memory
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Katuntu (...and you too) (from now on referred to as Katuntu) was devised and performed by myself and Injairu Kulundu as part of my thesis production in fulfilment of my MA in theatre-making from the University of Cape Town in 2009. The work was concerned with memory. In particular, I engaged with the concept of ‘playing memory’ through narratives of loss of language, place and family, brought on by a disrupted or uprooted childhood. Playing memory suggests in the first instance, an actual active playing of personal recollection that attempts to stage that which has passed. Playing memory in the second instance, is an exploration of how one might go about re-membering in order to recall oneself into being, that is, recapturing a lost time, place and childhood in order to put oneself back together.
DOI: 10.14749/32360892
Author: Human Sciences Research Council
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Human Sciences Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W7162124341
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