Black theatre is a term used internationally to distinguish dramatic work created and performed by, for, and about people of colour.

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The term

General meaning

Called Black theater in the United States, where it refers to a dramatic movement encompassing plays written by, for, and about African Americans. (Also known as African American theatre)[1]

Sources

https://www.britannica.com/art/black-theatre

Black Theatre in South Africa

See also the entry on Township theatre

Meaning

History

Suggested sources

https://www.britannica.com/art/black-theatre

Sam Moodley. Black Theatre an Expression of Black Consciousness , SA History Online[2]]

Steadman, Ian P. 1984a. Alternative politics, alternative performance; 1976 and Black South African theatre, in Daymond, Margaret J., Jacobs, Johan & Lenta, Margaret (eds.). Momentum: On Recent South African Writing. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press. 215-232.

Steadman, Ian P. 1984b. Alternative theatre: fifty years of performance in Johannesburg, in White, Landeg and Couzens, Tim (eds.). Literature and Society in South Africa. Pinelands, Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman. 138-146.

Steadman, Ian P. 1984c. Black South African theatre after nationalism. English Academy Review, 2:9-18.

Steadman, Ian P. 1984d. Theatre, criticism and cultural studies: new directions for the 1980s. Teaterforum, 5(1): 80-93.

Steadman, Ian P. 1985a. Drama and social consciousness: themes in Black theatre on the Witwatersrand until 1984. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand.

Steadman, Ian P. 1985b. The other face. Index to Censorship, 14 (1): 26-30.

Steadman, Ian P. 1985c. The radical paradigm in South African theatre studies: a review of Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa, by Robert Mshengu Kavanagh. Critical Arts, 4(1):80-84.

Steadman, Ian P. 1985d. Stages in the revolution: Black South African theater since 1976. Research in African Literatures, 19(1).

Keyan G. Tomaselli. 1981. Black South African Theatre: Text and Context in English in Africa, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Mar., 1981), pp. 51-58.