1st Edition
Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa Place and Play in Johannesburg
By Alexandra Halligey
Copyright 2020
180 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book considers how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in considering the everyday city, as well as conceptual lenses for understanding it. The author establishes... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Considering the fields 3. Making space to play 4. What the workshops revealed 5. The event of the play Intermezzo: Izithombe 2094 6. Playing the event again and again
Biography
Alexandra Halligey is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, within the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The fellowship is funded by South Africa’s National Research Foundation.
