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Browsing Drama by Title
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Maguire, Melissa
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Festivals, including arts festivals, have a long history of acting as special slices of space and time to commemorate or celebrate cultural occasions (Getz, 2007, p. 11). Getz’ views events and festivals as ‘special places’ ...
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Vermeulen, Vasti
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Angels in South Africa: Exploring Modern Progressive and Queer Realities in South Africa through Theatre is a thesis based on the development of the South African experimental play, Angels in South Africa. The play is a ...
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Pretorius, Hermanus
(University of Pretoria, 1994)
When the National Party came into power in 1948, Apartheid began to influence
all facets of South African life, also that of the theatre. This study documents
Apartheid legislation and the resistance against it, then ...
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Maritz, Gerrit Ulrich
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
This dissertation positions Community Theatre as an agency for development and education based on the educational principles of Freire and Boal’s Theatre for Development. The dissertation argues that Appreciative Inquiry ...
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Bester, Lelia
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The lack of standardised and structured training, underscored by an academic discourse on film acting, necessitates the designing of a training programme that critically engages with this notion. This study aims to contribute ...
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Papenfus, Zelné
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This article engages with audience perception of emotion in a physical theatre performance. Two primary, yet conflicting, scholarly discourses relating to how human beings perceive emotions in themselves and in others are ...
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Taub, Myer
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
This paper considers several examples of creative work specifically situated in the city of Venice as an
amplification of otherness made apparent through the city’s metonymy of the physical body. This is
an attempt to ...
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Zeeman, Estelle; Lotriet, Marena
(Routledge, 2013-02)
The teaching of classical Greek dramas is integral to drama education at the
University of Pretoria. In the past few years these dramas increasingly faced the
danger of becoming ‘foreign’/irrelevant to modern day students. ...
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Britz, Danielle
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Much of Afrikaans cinema before and after 1994 is characterized by a historically dominant heroic narrative. In response to this dominance, this study offers a postheroic framework for contemporary Afrikaans cinema to ...
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Broodryk, Chris Willem
(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2013)
In this article I critically discuss how Willie Esterhuizen's films explicitly present an affirmative heteronormative hegemonic masculinity despite numerous queer, destabilising possibilities that threaten such dominant ...
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Kruger, Christa; Blitz-Lindeque, J.J.; Pickworth, Glynis Ellen; Munro, A.J.(Alick J.); Lotriet, Marena
(Medpharm Publications, 2005-07)
BACKGROUND: This study describes the lessons learnt from using a novel method for teaching communication skills to
second-year medical/dental students.
METHODS: Medical and drama teachers designed this action research ...
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Maritz, Gerrit U.; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen
(Routledge, 2012)
This paper positions Community Theatre as an agency for development and education based on the educational
principles of Freire and Boal’s Theatre for Development. The paper argues that Appreciative Inquiry can enrich ...
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Haskins, Nicola
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
The study is situated in the field of choreographic composition within the context of higher education in South Africa. It aims to design and qualitatively reflect on the perceived efficacy of decolonial teaching and ...
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Zeeman, Estelle
(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-15)
The purpose of this thesis is to substantiate the hypothetical development of a community radio station for a South African National Park, such as the Kruger National Park and to design the programming. As such the thesis ...
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Smuts, Jacqui
(University of Pretoria, 2008)
AFRIKAANS : Die studie ondersoek magiese realisme se bydrae tot die destabilisering van binêre geslagsopposisies in Reza de Wet se drama Breathing In. Binêre geslagsopposisies dra by tot die konstruksie van gemarginaliseerde ...
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McCaul-Dommisse, Hermien
(University of Pretoria, 2010-04-14)
AFRIKAANS: Die ondersoek na die dramaturg en sy gemeenskap gaan uit van die veronderstelling dat die toneel nie net ‘n verbygaande vermaaklikheidsvorm is nie maar ‘n noodsaaklike en sinvolle uitingsvorm van die gemeenskapslewe ...
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De Wet, Micia
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This study aims to investigate and directorially apply Antonin Artaud's concept
of The Absolute in order to destabilise the victim/perpetrator binary between
the characters Beth and Jake in Sam Shepard's play text, A lie ...
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Meintjies, Frank
(Unisa Press, 2024-11)
In this article, I examine the representation of displacement in Bessie Head’s
When Rain Clouds Gather (1969). Head not only features displaced characters
but also depicts, through her protagonists, the struggles that ...
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Papenfus, Zelné
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
Dance-based physical theatre as a sub-strand of Physical Theatre, is positioned as a continuum of dance. Dance-based physical theatre performers are encouraged to embrace their personal uniqueness and previous dance training, ...
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Kruger, Marlene
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This study engages with the domains of second language teaching and learning (L2TL), drama-based teaching and learning (DBTL) and embodied cognition in order to establish how the effective implementation of DBTL may ...