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This blog focuses on theatre, performance and multimedia analysis. It is interested in arts criticism, reviews, pitching and features.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Emma Tollman’s Review of No Good Friday

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Whatever day of the week, No Good Friday written by Athol Fugard (1958) speaks ideological volumes to a 21 st century Johannesburg audien...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Wits Theatre and Wits School of Arts/Dramatic Art present Athol Fugard's No Good Friday

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The Wits School of Art, Division of Dramatic Art, is staging a student production of Athol Fugard’s No Good Friday in the Wits Downstairs ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

No Good Friday takes off with Auditions at the Wits School of Arts

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Samuel Ravengai 2014 Auditions for the Athol Fugard play, No Good Friday, kicked off Tuesday the 13 th of May under the watchful eye of t...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Zimbabwe’s cultural heritage gift: Chiwoniso Maraire

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Stephen Chifunyise When CHIPAWO staff and arts educators went to the funeral wake for Chiwoniso Maraire at her home in the Bluff Hill a...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Giving Voice to the Artist: The Impact of Current Cultural Policy Discourse on Zimbabwean Arts

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http://www.kubatana.net/docs/artcul/nhimbe_cultural_symposium_120606.pdf
Saturday, November 17, 2012

The State of Theatre in Masvingo (Zimbabwe) through the Eyes of David Dzatsunga - Siya Cultural Theatre

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After travelling through Mashonaland East and Manicaland provinces Grace Maguri and I finally reached Masvingo late at night on the 8 th o...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Maninzi Kwatshube Shocks Zimbabwean Theatre Audiences with Mabaso’s Black Threat

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Samuel Ravengai A second year University of Cape Town drama student, Maninzi Kwatshube, brought a moving piece of theatre to the Savanna T...
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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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