Zambian political theatre: How my play <i>The Cell</i> was prevented from being seen abroad

Mwansa, Dickson

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“…See, for example, Horn (1980Horn ( , 1986, Gitau (1982), Mwansa (1982aMwansa ( , 1982b, Kidd (1983Kidd ( , 1984, Muronda (1983), Kavanagh (1985), Crehan (1986aCrehan ( , 1986bCrehan ( , 1987, Fiebach (1986), Barber (1987), July (1987), Richards (1987aRichards ( , 1987b, and Desai (1990bDesai ( , 1991. Freire's pedagogy rejected the authoritarian practice whereby the teacher is the sole carrier of knowledge and the student, the repository-what he called "banking" education-and in its place instituted "problem-posing" education generated through teacher/student interaction.…”

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The State of Research on Performance in Africa

Drewal¹

1991

African Studies Review

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Performance raises fundamental issues about bodily praxis, human agency, temporality, and discursive knowledge and calls into question conventional understandings of tradition, repetition, mechanical reproduction, and ontological definitions of social order and reality. Across academic disciplines and across modes of production, however, performance is a contested concept, “meaning that its very existence is bound up in disagreement about what it is, and that disagreement over its essence is itself part of that essence” (Strine, Long, and HopKins, 1989: 183). In other words, performance has no precisely agreed upon definition. Rather it varies in scope and import from one academic discipline to another and from one practitioner, or human agent, to another. In the emerging field of performance studies, performance is open-ended, but it privileges process, the temporally or processually constructed nature of human realities, and the agency of knowledgeable performers who have embodied particular techniques and styles to accomplish it (M. Drewal, 1989b; Conquergood, 1989). In the broadest sense, performance is the praxis of everyday social life; indeed, it is the practical application of embodied skill and knowledge to the task of taking action. Performance is thus a fundamental dimension of culture as well as the production of knowledge about culture. It might include anything from individual agents' negotiations of everyday life, to the stories people tell each other, popular entertainments, political oratory, guerrilla warfare, to bounded events such as theater, ritual, festivals, parades, and more.

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The State of Research on Performance in Africa

Drewal¹

1991

African Studies Review

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Fathers and Sons: Politics and Myth in Recent Zambian Drama

Crehan¹

1987

New Theatre Quarterly

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The conflict of generations is a theme familiar enough in western drama – but less expected in an African context, with its strong traditions of ‘respectful, submissive behaviour towards the old in general, and towards one's parents in particular’. Yet a theme of aggression between fathers and sons has, argues Stewart Crehan, been discernible in a significant proportion of the plays staged in the last three festivals of the Zambian National Theatre Arts Association. He analyzes some of these plays, and examines the implications of the theme in the various social circumstances of contemporary Zambian society, besides discussing the ‘mythical dimension’ which is also involved. Stewart Crehan is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature and Languages at the University of Zambia, and has been active in Zambian theatre as a playwright, actor, director, and adjudicator. He is author of a critical study and selected edition of the work of William Blake, and has published various articles on literature from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, and on African drama and literature.

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Zambian political theatre: How my play The Cell was prevented from being seen abroad

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The State of Research on Performance in Africa

The State of Research on Performance in Africa

Fathers and Sons: Politics and Myth in Recent Zambian Drama

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