Magnet Theatre : Three Decades of Making Space.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (362 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Plotting the Magnetic Field: Origins and Trajectories -- Production History -- Part One: Concepts: Making Space for Ideas -- Colour Photographs: 1987-2009 C-1 -- Chapter 2: Making Space for Ideas: The Knowledge Work of Magnet Theatre -- Chapter 3: An Activist Company Inventing a Future: A Conversation with Neo Muyanga -- Chapter 4: 'Being There': The Evolution of Performance Aesthetics from Medea (1994-96) to The Magnet Theatre 'Migration' Plays (2012) -- Chapter 5: The Full Gamut of an Ideal Company: A Conversation with Jay Pather -- Chapter 6: The Implacable Grandeur of the Stranger: Ruminations on Fear and Familiarity in Die Vreemdeling [The Stranger] (2010) -- Chapter 7: Theatre That Can Organize, Mobilize, Conscientize: A Conversation with Mandla Mbothwe -- Part Two: Collaboration: Making Space for Empbodied Practice -- Colour Photographs: 2010-2015 C-17 -- Chapter 8: Performing the Language of the Body in My Mother Tongue: A Conversation with Faniswa Yisa -- Chapter 9: Magnet Theatre and the Moving Body -- Chapter 10: Ideas Dying to be Born: A Conversation with Craig Leo -- Chapter 11: The Creative Flow of Arresting, Exquisite Fabric: A Conversation with Illka Louw -- Chapter 12: Embodied Practice that Troubles Fixed Narratives of Identity, History and Memory -- Chapter 13: Magnet's Recipe for Considered, Conscious Theatre-Making: A Conversation with Frances Marek -- Chapter 14: The Performance Labours of Magnet and Jazzart's Cargo (2007) -- Part Three - Community: Making Space for Cultural Interventions -- Clanwilliam Photoessay C-33 -- Chapter 15: Making Space for Community: Magnet Theatre 'Intervenes' in Khayelitsha -- Chapter 16: Vividly Feeling the Extremes of Being in the World: A Conversation with Margie Pankhurst. Chapter 17: By Telling Stories We Can Learn Something from Life: A Conversation with Thando Doni -- Chapter 18: Catalysing a Community: Magnet's Clanwilliam Community Intervention Project -- Chapter 19: Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural Dialogue -- Chapter 20: Keeping Theatre Alive in the Community: A Conversation with Zwelakhe Khuse -- Chapter 21: Magnet Never Forgets its People: A Conversation with Nolovuyo Sam -- Magnet Funders -- Index -- Back Cover.
For three decades, Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has served as a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, this book analyses Magnet's many productions and presents a rich compendium of their work.