Theatre and society in South Africa : some reflections in a fractured mirror

Hauptfleisch, Temple

Theatre and society in South Africa : some reflections in a fractured mirror

dc.contributor.author	Hauptfleisch, Temple
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-04T09:28:09Z
dc.date.available	2013-09-04T09:28:09Z
dc.date.issued	1997-01
dc.description.abstract	The debate about the precise relationship between theatre and society is an old and honourable one - whether in terms of the Shakespearean metaphor Oorfles utilizes (along with a vast range of other writers), or in terms of Aristotle's Mimesis, Or Johnson's Nature, Coleridge's Truth, and the many other metaphors used to indicate the representative nature of the arts. The way one perceives this clearly has a great deal to do with who one is and how one has been socialized oneself. It is also clear from even the most superficial reading of the many theorists over the ages, that no-one sees it as a simple, predictable or even dependable relationship, or even a matter of precise unmeditated imitation of an external 'reality'.1 It is too dependent on human beings and their complex and perverse natures to be so. It is also perceived as an 'art' created by an individual'artist' - and the terms art and artist are themselves concepts of some flexibility. But all agree, somewhere along the line, that there is a relationship of some kind between a performance and the socio-cultural context in which it occurs.	en_ZA
dc.description.version	Was printed as a book, now out of stock and only available online.	en_ZA
dc.format.extent	204 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.citation	Hauptfleisch, T. 1997. Theatre and Society in South Africa: some reflections in a fractured mirror. Pretoria: Van Schaik.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn	ISBN 0 627 02294 4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85401
dc.language.iso	en_ZA	en_ZA
dc.publisher	J.L. van Schaik	en_ZA
dc.rights.holder	Author retain copyright	en_ZA
dc.subject	Theatre and society -- South Africa	en_ZA
dc.subject	Theater -- South Africa -- History	en_ZA
dc.subject	South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Drama	en_ZA
dc.title	Theatre and society in South Africa : some reflections in a fractured mirror	en_ZA
dc.type	Book	en_ZA