Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: Theatre and South African Public Spheres 1
1 Commemorating and Contesting Emancipation: Pageants and Other Progressive Enactments 19
2 Neocolonial Theatre and "An African National Dramatic Movement" 37
3 City against Country: (Anti-)apartheid Theatre in the Shadow of Sophiatown 53
4 Dry White Seasons: Advance and Retreat of the Afrikaner Ascendancy 75
5 Dramas of Black Solidarity: Black Consciousness Movement and Beyond 101
6 Spaces and Markets: Theatre as Testimony and Performance against Apartheid 121
7 Spring Is Rebellious: Prospects and Retrospects in Post-Anti-Apartheid Theatre 147
8 The Constitution of South African Theatre at the Present Time 167
Coda 193
Notes 196
Abbreviations, Glossary, and Linguistic Conventions 221
References 229
Index 249