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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Culture and production: the contradictions of working class theatre in South Africa |
Author: | Sitas, Ari |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Africa Perspective |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 84-110 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | working class theatre |
Abstract: | The impact of South African trade unions on working class cultures throughout the country over the last five years has accentuated new tensions in the cultural spaces of working class communities, and created new possibilities for cultural struggle, linking in unique ways the relationship between culture and production. The author, whose work in popular or working class theatre has been part and parcel of this process, analyses here some central contradictory tensions in workers' theatre. The demand by worker groupings that production, as the real site of oppression and exploitation, should form the central concern of theatrical work, presents one of the most difficult aesthetic problems for the theatre. In literally 'acting out' the struggles of the workers and the communities, further contradictions with the aesthetic hegemony of the current dominant forms of culture unfold. Their confrontation produces tensions that propel creative output. Notes, ref. |