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The term [[Township theatre]] refers to theatre and performance events created and performed  by [[black]] South Africans living in the [[Township|townships]] that surround cities and and towns of the country.  
 
The term [[Township theatre]] refers to theatre and performance events created and performed  by [[black]] South Africans living in the [[Township|townships]] that surround cities and and towns of the country.  
  
The so-called "[[locations]]" or "[[townships]]'' were largely created in the 20th century under the apartheid shadow,
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The so-called "[[locations]]" or "[[townships]]" were largely created and so named in the 19th and 20th centuries under the shadow of [[colonialism]] and [[apartheid]].
  
 
==The [[Ikhwezi Community Theatre Festival]], Cape Town==
 
==The [[Ikhwezi Community Theatre Festival]], Cape Town==
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==Sources==
 
==Sources==
  
[[Gay Morris]]. 2007. Townships, identity and collective theatre making by young South Africans: theatre as intervention. [[South African Theatre Journal]][https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC110998https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC110998]
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[[Gay Morris]]. 2007. Townships, identity and collective theatre making by young South Africans: theatre as intervention. [[South African Theatre Journal]] Vol. 21, No. 1[https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC110998https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC110998]

Revision as of 06:00, 19 November 2024

The term Township theatre refers to theatre and performance events created and performed by black South Africans living in the townships that surround cities and and towns of the country.

The so-called "locations" or "townships" were largely created and so named in the 19th and 20th centuries under the shadow of colonialism and apartheid.

The Ikhwezi Community Theatre Festival, Cape Town

In 1998 the Baxter Theatre created the annual Ikhwezi Community Theatre Festival to host a selection of the township productions.


Sources

Gay Morris. 2007. Townships, identity and collective theatre making by young South Africans: theatre as intervention. South African Theatre Journal Vol. 21, No. 1[1]