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  1. Texts to buy 8 items
    1. Accidental death of an anarchist - Fo, Dario, Richards, Gavin 1987, c1980

      Book 

    2. Woza Albert! - Mtwa, Percy, Ngema, Mbongeni, Simon, Barney 1983

      Book 

    3. Boesman and Lena: and other plays - Fugard, Athol 1980

      Book 

    4. The Bacchae of Euripides - Wole Soyinka

      Chapter 

    5. Plays 1 - Wertenbaker, Timberlake 1996

      Book  Includes "The Grace of Mary Traverse"

    6. Harlem duet - Sears, Djanet 1997

      Book 

  2. Copyright Cleared Resources 1 item
    1. Direct link through to Copyright Unit web pages

      Webpage  You may have to log in to access this information

  3. Weekly teaching schedule and recommended reading 19 items
    1. Please note: These lists are given as a guide, It is important that you prepare for the lectures by reading selected articles, primary texts and some of the recommended secondary texts. Some extracts are available in your module handbook or on Blackboard.

    2. Week 1: Introduction and overview 1 item
      (a) Introduction to the module: rationale, organization, assessment, resources. Week 1 will be a general introduction to performance and resistance, and general discussion of the module. The Lecture will consider the nature of intercultural performance, theatre and resistance. It will also outline the delivery and assessment structure of the module. This lecture will address key theoretical concepts covered on the module. (b) Introduction to Dario Fo’s drama and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
      1. Accidental death of an anarchist - Fo, Dario, Nye, Simon 2003

        Book  Another edition is also available in the library

    3. Week 2: 3 items
      How do European stage traditions persist in the twentieth/twenty-first century? A focus on Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist
      1. Accidental death of an anarchist - Fo, Dario, Nye, Simon 2003

        Book 

      2. Recommended reading 2 items
        1. "Dario Fo: Jester of the working class" - in - World Literature Today - Domenico Maceri 1998

          Article  E-journal. You may need to log in to access this title.

        2. "Dario Fo: of funny mysteries and bleached bones" - in - Romance Languages Annual - Antonino Musumeci 1998

          Article  Article available via Copyright Cleared Resources. You may need to log in to access this title.

    4. Week 3: Theatre and Apartheid 5 items
      Introduction to Athol Fugard’s playwriting and Boesman and Lena
      1.  Introduction to Athol Fugard's playwriting and performance practice

        Introduction to Boesman and Lena

        The Lecture this week will examine resistance strategies in theatre, specifically, Fugard and the South African theatre under apartheid. We shall examine how and why playwrights adapt or rewrite the classics to talk back to the oppressors.

      2. Boesman and Lena - Glover, Danny, Berry, John 2000, 22/10/01 (video recording)

        Audio-visual document 

      3. Boesman and Lena: and other plays - Fugard, Athol 1980

        Book  Other editions are also available in the Library

      4. Recommended reading 1 item
        1. "...No time for apartheid" Dancing free of the system in Athol Fugard's 'Boesman and Lena' - in - South African theatre as/and intervention - Errol Durbach 1999

          Chapter  This chapter is also available as a digitised reading from the Copyright Cleared Resources page.

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          1. Formative Assessment

         You will critically assess the filmed performance of Fugard's Boesman and Lena, in order to clarify the key issues of intercultural performance and resistance addressed by the module.

        Submission Date: Monday, 11 February

         

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          1. Summative Assessment

        Begin to research topics for the presentation. You will be presenting the research in the seventh week of the class. You are advised to book tutorials to discuss your issues/topics. This presentation may involve a close analysis of a scene. You may choose a short passage from the play and developing a focused argument that relates the details of that passage to the play as a whole as well as the concerns of the module.

    5. Week 4: Fugard's The Island 3 items
      Screening of The Island Discussion of Fugard’s use of a classic to address issues of oppression
      1. Recommended reading 2 items
        1. "Sophocles in South Africa: Athol Fugard's 'The Island'" - in - Comparative Drama - Errol Durbach 1984

          Article  E-journal. You may need to log in to access this title.

    6. Week 5:Mbongeni Ngema's drama of resistance - Asinamali and Woza Albert 6 items
      For Week Five view the video Sarafina on reserve in the Library. The lecture will focus on Asinamali. There will be an opportunity to look at the filmic version of the play.
      1. Sarafina!: the sound of freedom - Roodt, Darrell James, Ngema, Mbongeni 1994 (videorecording)

        Audio-visual document  Other copies are also available in the Library

      2. Recommended reading 4 items
        1. "Theatre in transition: the cultural struggle in South Africa" - in - The Drama Review - Peter Larlham 1991

          Article  Digitised reading available from Copyright Cleared Resources page.

    7. Week 6: Archival research and essay tutorials for final essay 0 items
    8. Week 7: Mbongeni Ngema's drama of resistance 0 items
  4. General Bibliography 45 items
    1. African theatre in development - Banham, Martin, Gibbs, James, Osofisan, Femi 1999

      Book 

    2. Theatre matters: performance and culture on the world stage - Plastow, Jane, Boon, Richard 1998

      Book 

    3. Theatre of the oppressed - Boal, Augusto 2008

      Book 

    4. Theatre of the oppressed - Boal, Augusto 2008 (electronic resource)

      Book  E-book. You may need to log in to access this title.

    5. On edge: performance at the end of the twentieth century - Carr, Christopher 1993

      Book  A later edition is also available in the Library

    6. Out from under: texts by women performance artists - Champagne, Lenora 1990

      Book 

    7. A Boal companion: dialogues on theatre and cultural politics - Cohen-Cruz, Jan, Schutzman, Mady 2006

      Book 

    8. Pedagogy of the oppressed - Freire, Paulo, Ramos, Myra Bergman 1996

      Book 

    9. Boesman and Lena: and other plays - Fugard, Athol 1980

      Book 

    10. The Routledge reader in politics and performance - Goodman, Lizbeth, De Gay, Jane 2000

      Book 

    11. Politics of Performance : Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention - Kershaw, Baz, Ebooks Corporation 1992 (electronic resource)

      Book  E-book. You may need to log in to access this title.

    12. The Intercultural performance reader - Pavis, Patrice 1996

      Book 

    13. Nation and narration - Bhabha, Homi K. 1990

      Book 

    14. Imperialism and theatre: essays on world theatre, drama, and performance - Gainor, J. Ellen 1995 (electronic resource)

      Book  e-book You may need to log in to access this title

    15. Terrorism and modern drama - Orr, John, Klaić, Dragan 1990

      Book 

    16. South African theatre as/and intervention - Blumberg, Marcia, Walder, Dennis 1999

      Book 

    17. Staging resistance: essays on political theater - Colleran, Jeanne M., Spencer, Jenny S. c1998

      Book 

    18. The drama of South Africa: plays, pageants and publics since 1910 - Kruger, Loren 1999 (electronic resource)

      Book  e-book. You may need to log in to access this title

    19. New world modernisms: T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite - Pollard, Charles W. 2004

      Book 

    20. Analysing performance: a critical reader - Campbell, Patrick 1996

      Book 

    21. Post-colonial drama: theory, practice, politics - Gilbert, Helen, Tompkins, Joanne 1996

      Book 

    22. Post-colonial drama: theory, practice, politics - Gilbert, Helen, Tompkins, Joanne, Ebooks Corporation 1996 (electronic resource)

      Book  E-book. You may need to log in to access this title.

    23. Performance anxieties: staging psychoanalysis, staging race - Pellegrini, Ann 1997

      Book 

    24. Let's get it on: the politics of black performance - Ugwu, Catherine, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) c1995

      Book 

    25. Harlem duet - Sears, Djanet 1997

      Book 

    26. Plays - Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Wertenbaker, Timberlake 1996

      Book  Includes "The Grace of Mary traverse"

    27. Collaborative theatre: the Theatre du Soleil sourcebook - Williams, David 1999

      Book 

    28. Collaborative theatre: the Theatre du Soleil sourcebook - Williams, David, Ebooks Corporation 1999 (electronic resource)

      Book  E-book. You may need to log in to access this title.

    29. Peter Brook: a theatrical casebook - Williams, David 1988

      Book 

    30. Journals 7 items
      1. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

        Journal  E-Journal. You may need to log in to access this title.

      2. Modern drama

        Journal  Print journal

      3. Modern Drama

        Journal  e-Journal. You may need to log in to access this title

      4. Contemporary Theatre Review

        Journal  E-journal. You may need to log in to access this title.

      5. Feminist Review

        Journal  E-journal. You may need to log in to access this title