Whose Popular Theatre and Performance?

Community theatre and indigenous performance traditions. An introduction to Chicano theatre, with reference to parallel developments in South Africa This article will fo c u s on the theme o f com munity and on the fo rm s stem m ing fro m ora! literature a n d m usical tradition in Chicano theatre, while draw ing comparisons with sim ilar developments in South Africa.I will argue that the reappropriation o f traditional m odes a n d their integration into stage perform ance replaced the fo rm erly "Eurocentric definition o f theatre" with a more indigenous specificity, a development that has been observed in South Africa as well (Hauplfleisch, 1988:40). We can thus speak o f a certain divergence fro m standard contem porary Western traditions in both the Chicano a n d the black South African com m unity theatre, a trend that is notable in both their themes a n d form s.

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Whose Popular Theatre and Performance?

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Notions of coloured identities in Cape Flats theatre: a look at Taliep Petersen's District Six—The Musical

Community theatre and indigenous performance traditions: An introduction to Chicano theatre, with reference to parallel developments in South Africa

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