What I was Told
Verbatim-physical theatre as feminist protest theatre in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14960943 |
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| Authors | Helena Baard (0000-0002-7752-2726, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 178-193 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1013-7548 • E-ISSN: 2163-7660 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10137548.2022.2063938 |
| OpenAlex | W4224315466 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Verbatim-physical theatre presents the possibility for women’s stories, not only to be told, but to be heard, interacted and engaged with. This article explores the combination of physical- and verbatim theatre for feminist protest theatre in South Africa. It argues that verbatim-physical theatre as feminist protest theatre presents a mode of storytelling that is challenging and oppositional through embodied and dynamic performances. It further makes the case that South African theatre is built on a long tradition of story-telling, is imbued with inherent physicality and has always been a strong means for political consciousness-raising and education. It is this nature of South African theatre that makes the combination of verbatim- and physical theatre so effective for feminist protest theatre. The article also analyses the creation and staging of What I was Told, a verbatim-physical theatre production telling the stories of women, the stories told to us and the stories that still need to be told
Art · Drama · Geography · Global South · Media studies · Political theatre · Sociology · Theatre studies · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · South African History and Culture · Theatre and Performance Studies
The Ethics of the Representation of the Real People and Their Stories in Verbatim Theatre
Physical Images in the South African Theatre
Landscape and Body
Embodied selves
The body as history and memory
Embodied knowledges
Embodying ‘lightness’ in the New South Africa—the theatre of Ellis Pearson and Bheki Mkhwane 1993–2008
The autoethnographic act of choreography
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
| Highly cited | No |
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