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Emandulo: Process and Performance in a Changing South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Thomas Riccio
Thomas Riccio
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Thomas Riccio lectures at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He has been working for many years on performance projects with indigenous people: with Inuits in Greenland, with Tamils in Sri Lanka, with Sakha in Siberia, with San (Bushmen) in Namibia…
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In the spring of 1992 the Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC) in Durban, South Africa, invited me to develop a performance based on Zulu traditions with their recently formed Kwasa Group and their long established Loft Theatre. ‘Kwasa’, Zulu for ‘it dawns’, was NAPAC's attempts to address the changing needs of South Africa. Two weeks after white South Africa voted in favour of a nationwide referendum to allow non-whites the ability to vote I began rehearsals for Emandulo.’

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Theatre Research International , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1994 , pp. 238 - 261
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1994

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