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Friday, May 11, 2012

HIFA Theatre Signs off with Miller’s I Have Sinned (2012).

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By Samuel Ravengai Peace Mukwara, the director of I have Sinned Of course Arthur Miller never wrote a play with the same title. I Ha...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Zimbabwean Theatre and Censorship: Views from Walter Muparutsa

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By Samuel Ravengai Walter Muparutsa was a fierce defender of freedom of expression. He did not only talk about it, but demonstrated it in ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

The Role of the Media in Developing Theatre in Zimbabwe

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(Paper presented at the World Theatre Day on the 26 th of March 2012, Alliance Française Harare) Samuel Ravengai University of Zimbabw...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Two Zimbabwean Sitcoms: What Sitcom?

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Samuel Ravengai Sunday Mirror Review, 11 April 2004 Zimbabwe Television (ZTV) has so far produced two sitcoms – namely, Timmy na Bonzo and ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Are so called Zimbabwean Soap Operas on Course or still Groping in the darkness?

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Sunday Mirror, 7 March 2004 Samuel Ravengai In 2002 the first Zimbabwean soap opera came on air. Thereafter, several others emerged and I g...
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Samuel Ravengai
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Samuel Ravengai is a Zimbabwean born director and theatre maker working in South Africa. Ravengai is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance at Wits University’s Theatre and Performance Department, in Johannesburg, where he teaches across a range of theory and practical courses covering performance, directing, writing, South African theatre and cultural myths. He received both his PhD and MA in theatre from the University of Cape Town. He is a member of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) where he works closely with the African Caribbean Theatre and Performance (ACT&P) Working Group to which he is one of the founding members. He is particularly interested in the interconnection of race, nation, empire, migration and ethnicity with cultural production. Ravengai’s most recent publications are in Performing Migrancy and Mobility (2014), Theatre Dance and Performance Training 5 (4) 2014 and South African Theatre Journal 28 (2) 2015. He has performed nationally and internationally.
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