Development, belonging and change : a study of a community theatre-for-development initiative in KwaZulu-Natal

This dissertation seeks to address issues related to community change within the field of Theatre-for development. It proposes and then investigates various ways in which a community may seek to retain a sense of collective ideology in the light of both positive and negative developmental change, as promulgated by agents outside their community. Chapter one, Introduction, begins by introducing the reader both to the fieldwork project and the community, Khethani township, in which the masters degree filedwork was undertaken. It was this fieldwork which prompted the research enquiry covered by this dissertation, to which the reader is introduced. It delineates the research methodologies of both the fieldwork project and this dissertation, and positions the writer in relation to this study. The initial aim of the fieldwork project was to do a practical enquiry into the methods of workshop theatre and the development of a distinct theatre aesthetic that emerges from a community as a result of workshop theatre practices. Having completed the fieldwork project and having considered the results of the initial fieldwork aims a larger research enquiry developed as to the role of workshop theatre within the broader context of community development and this has now become the focus of this dessertation.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Drama

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Stockil, Emily

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Morris, Gay

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8166

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8166