• Apartheid en verset : die ontwikkeling van 'n politieke protf.steater in Suid-Afrika tot Soweto 1976 

  Pretorius, Hermanus (University of Pretoria, 1994)

  When the National Party came into power in 1948, Apartheid began to influence all facets of South African life, also that of the theatre. This study documents Apartheid legislation and the resistance against it, then ...
• Mapping places and identities through contemporary Bulawayo popular song texts 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko; Dhlamini, Nozizwe (Routledge, 2020)

  In this article, the authors examine the symbiotic relationship that exists between places and identities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, through contemporary song texts. They borrow Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality to ...
• The Lamb's Wrath : Cannibalism, Divinity, and Apocalypse in Hannibal 

  Janse van Rensburg, Dené (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This study proposes that the television series Hannibal (Fuller 2013-2015), with its aesthetic and thematic emphasis on Christian motifs and imagery, is a contemporary apocalyptic fiction. Specifically, this study argues ...
• Neoliberalism and theatre training in Zimbabwean higher education : the case of Midlands State University 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko (Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2020)

  In this account, I engage how Midlands State University through its Film and Theatre Arts Studies programme responded and continues to respond to the neoliberalisation of higher and tertiary education in Zimbabwe. I argue ...
• Embodied shiftings to bridge actor-character dissonance 

  Haarhoff, Emil Ernst (University of Pretoria, 2020-11-01)

  When a script stipulates actions, gestural routines and mental models for a character that clash with the personal values of the actor, it creates dissonance between what the actor (as person) believes, represents or ...
• Drama-based second language teaching and learning 

  Kruger, Marlene (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This study engages with the domains of second language teaching and learning (L2TL), drama-based teaching and learning (DBTL) and embodied cognition in order to establish how the effective implementation of DBTL may ...
• Variation in Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus plantations in YunNan Province in southwestern China across a climatic gradient 

  Li, Guoqing; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Chen, ShuaiFei (BioMed Central, 2020-12)

  The Botryosphaeriaceae accommodates many important pathogens of woody plants, including Eucalyptus. Recently, Botryosphaeriaceae were isolated from diseased plant parts from surveys of Eucalyptus plantations in the ...
• A gendered discourse analysis of Clement Magwaza’s Istambo Sami song text 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko; Nkala, Novuyo (SocArts Research Group and the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology of the University of Exeter, 2020-11)

  This paper analyses Clement Magwaza’s Istambo Sami song text as a discourse through which one can understand the gendered Ndebele/ Kalanga society. Deploying textual reading of Magwaza’s song text, this article argues that ...
• Language use in postcolonial Zimbabwean alternative theatre performance 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko (Routledge, 2020)

  This paper deploys the sociolinguistic concepts of indexicality and language ideologies to examine Amakhosi Theatre Productions and Rooftop Promotions’ use of language and linguistic frames as a performance resistive ...
• Utopian places/spaces in selected Bongani Sibanda's short stories 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, 2020)

  The dire socio-political and economic landscape in Zimbabwe has forced many Zimbabweans, young and old, to relocate to various and different diasporic locations. When these diaspora-based Zimbabweans “visit” or literarly ...
• Expansionary engagements : Butterworth's didactic-democratic spectrum model in physical theatre choreography 

  Janse van Rensburg, Walt (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This study aims to identify my personal choreographic approach to physical theatre-making and then to experientially expand on it by engaging with Joanne Butterworth‘s five-tier Didactic-Democratic spectrum model for ...
• The efficacy of a pre-recorded digital performing arts skills development module for fourth-year drama students at a South African University : a case study 

  Faber, Stephen (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The purpose of this study is to develop, present and assess a skillsdevelopment module in pre-recorded digital performing arts (PRDPA) that may enable performing artists to become practitioners of pre-recorded digital performing ...
• Assessment of a training programme for actors to make the shifts from theatre acting to film acting 

  Bester, Lelia (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The lack of standardised and structured training, underscored by an academic discourse on film acting, necessitates the designing of a training programme that critically engages with this notion. This study aims to contribute ...
• Audience Perception of Emotion in a Physical Theatre Performance 

  Papenfus, Zelné (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This article engages with audience perception of emotion in a physical theatre performance. Two primary, yet conflicting, scholarly discourses relating to how human beings perceive emotions in themselves and in others are ...
• Distinguishing between Intended and Perceived Emotions in a 'Dance-based' Physical Theatre Performance 

  Papenfus, Zelné (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  Dance-based physical theatre as a sub-strand of Physical Theatre, is positioned as a continuum of dance. Dance-based physical theatre performers are encouraged to embrace their personal uniqueness and previous dance training, ...
• The efficacy of Laban movement analysis as a framework for observing and analysing space in Rosas danst Rosas 

  Prinsloo, Tarryn-Tanille; Munro, Marth; Broodryk, Chris Willem (Routledge, 2019)

  This article forms part of a larger qualitative, conceptual project that investigates the ways in which Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) can contribute to the larger field of dance research and education with reference to ...
• Angels in South Africa. Playing with queerness in South African theatre 

  Vermeulen, Vasti (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  Angels in South Africa: Exploring Modern Progressive and Queer Realities in South Africa through Theatre is a thesis based on the development of the South African experimental play, Angels in South Africa. The play is a ...
• The empathetic physician : using process drama to facilitate the training of empathy skills in healthcare education 

  Schweickerdt, Louise (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  Introduction This study used elements of process drama to explore and facilitate training of empathy skills in medical students. To do so, a training session through role-play was introduced, which was evaluated through ...
• Dramatizing gender : exploring gender constructs through drama-based strategies 

  Bateman, Tish; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Routledge, 2018)

  This article explores the ways in which drama-based strategies were used to stimulate critical inquiry into constructs of power, gender and sexual orientation amongst a group of Grade 10 learners. Drama, with its emphasis ...
• Screening the church : a study of clergy representation in contemporary Afrikaans cinema 

  Joynt, Shaun; Broodryk, Chris Willem (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-18)

  The church-funded CARFO or KARFO (Afrikaans Christian Filmmaking Organisation) was established in 1947, and aimed to ‘[socialise] the newly urbanized Afrikaner into a Christian urban society’ (Tomaselli 1985:25; Paleker ...

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