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Series:   Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political

Decolonising African Theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2024

Samuel Ravengai
Samuel Ravengai
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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Decolonisation can be pursued in different ways. After many years of developing a critical language to engage coloniality, the most urgent need in African theatre is to develop new theories and methods in our manufactories. This Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African theatre. The Element particularly focuses on the history of laboratories in which it was tested and emerged, the historicization of rombic theatre and the crafting of a theory of the playtext which has been named theatric theory to distinguish it from the Aristotelian dramatic theory. The second dimension of the theory is the performatic technique. This Element also explain Afrosonic mime through examples drawn from the workshops conducted in training performers.
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Afroscenologydariro/cantorombic theatredecolonisationAfrosonic mime
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Series: Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political
Online ISBN: 9781009271455
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 11 April 2024

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