Marcia Blumberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 175289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Blumberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Blumberg |
| SIGNATURE | BLUMBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
South African theatre beyond 2000
The article examines theatre beyond 2000 – a volatile period (a second interregnum) in South Africa. Playwrights and theatre practitioners explore a range of what would previously have been unspeakable issues and South African theatre is accomplishing important political work. I use 'unspeakable' in two ways: firstly, voices from diverse, formerly marginalised South Africans, who were oppressed and silenced, are now giving voice to their experien…
South African Theatre as/and Intervention
One of the most striking features of cultural life in South Africa has been the extent to which one area of cultural practice - theatre - has more than any other testified to the present condition of the country, now in transition between its colonial past and a decolonized future. But in what sense and how far does the critical force of theatre in South Africa as a mode of intervention continue? In the immediate post-election moment, theatre see…
Staging Aids
(1997). Staging AIDS: Activating Theatres. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 155-182
More Market Plays, and
Reviewed by: More Market Plays, and: Mooi Street Moves Marcia Blumberg More Market Plays. Selected by John Kani. Parklands: Ad Donker, 1994; pp. 256. SAR 50.95. Mooi Street And Other Moves. Paul Slabolepsky. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994; pp. xxi +338. SAR 70.00. Una Chaudhuri’s term “geopathology . . . the problem of place—and place as problem” is particularly useful for approaching these two anthologies of South African the…
Negotiating the in‐between
Valley Song (1995), Athol Fugard's first post‐apartheid play, is situated in the liminal space of the in‐between: between the interregnum and the post‐election era, between the decaying apartheid structures and the uncertainty of a fledgling democracy, between the stifling entrapment of old ways and the energy and enthusiasm of youth. The play demonstrates some new initiatives in structure and thematic concerns but is undeniably part of Fugard's …
Re-Evaluating Otherness, Building for Difference
Women Journeying at the South African Margins
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Women Journeying at the South African Margins
Re-Evaluating Otherness, Building for Difference
Negotiating the in‐between
Valley Song (1995), Athol Fugard's first post‐apartheid play, is situated in the liminal space of the in‐between: between the interregnum and the post‐election era, between the decaying apartheid structures and the uncertainty of a fledgling democracy, between the stifling entrapment of old ways and the energy and enthusiasm of youth. The play demonstrates some new initiatives in structure and thematic concerns but is undeniably part of Fugard's …
Staging Aids
(1997). Staging AIDS: Activating Theatres. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 155-182
More Market Plays, and
Reviewed by: More Market Plays, and: Mooi Street Moves Marcia Blumberg More Market Plays. Selected by John Kani. Parklands: Ad Donker, 1994; pp. 256. SAR 50.95. Mooi Street And Other Moves. Paul Slabolepsky. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994; pp. xxi +338. SAR 70.00. Una Chaudhuri’s term “geopathology . . . the problem of place—and place as problem” is particularly useful for approaching these two anthologies of South African the…
South African Theatre as/and Intervention
One of the most striking features of cultural life in South Africa has been the extent to which one area of cultural practice - theatre - has more than any other testified to the present condition of the country, now in transition between its colonial past and a decolonized future. But in what sense and how far does the critical force of theatre in South Africa as a mode of intervention continue? In the immediate post-election moment, theatre see…
South African theatre beyond 2000
The article examines theatre beyond 2000 – a volatile period (a second interregnum) in South Africa. Playwrights and theatre practitioners explore a range of what would previously have been unspeakable issues and South African theatre is accomplishing important political work. I use 'unspeakable' in two ways: firstly, voices from diverse, formerly marginalised South Africans, who were oppressed and silenced, are now giving voice to their experien…
History (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works)