Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa: Cape of Flows

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Dramaturgies of Displacement in the Magnet Theatre Migration Project....Pages 12-36
‘Peel the Wound’- Cape Town as Passage, Threshold, and Dead End: Performing the Everyday Traumas of Mobility and Dislocation....Pages 37-56
Creating Communitas: The Theatre of Mandla Mbothwe....Pages 57-76
Embodiment, Mobility and the Moment of Encounter in Jonathan Nkala’s The Crossing....Pages 77-96
(Re)-membering the Cape and the Performance of Belonging(s)....Pages 97-109
Uhambo: pieces of a dream - Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality....Pages 110-124
Mobility, Migration and ‘Migritude’ in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and all points in between....Pages 125-148
Mamma Africa: A Theatre of Inclusion, Hope(lessness) and Protest....Pages 149-163
On Familiar Roads: The Fluidity of Cape Coloured Experiences and Expressions of Migration and Reclamation in the Performances of the Kaapse Klopse in Cape Town....Pages 164-179
Tall Horse, Tall Stories....Pages 180-195
Play Text: The Life and Work of Petrović Petar....Pages 196-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-232