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Book SynopsisCape Town’s Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, as well as perspectives from performers, artists and scholars, this book analyses Magnet’s many productions and presents a rich compendium of the work of one of the most vital physical theatre companies in Africa.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Plotting the Magnetic Field: Origins and Trajectories
Megan Lewis and Anton Krueger Chapter 2 - Making Space for Ideas: The Knowledge Work of Magnet Theatre
Mark Fleishman Chapter 3 - An Activist Company Inventing a Future:
A Conversation with Neo Muyanga Chapter 4 - ‘Being There’: The Evolution of Performance Aesthetics from Medea (1994–96) to The Magnet Theatre ‘Migration’ Plays (2012)
Miki Flockemann Chapter 5 - The Full Gamut of an Ideal Company:
A Conversation with Jay Pather Chapter 6 - The Implacable Grandeur of the Stranger: Ruminations on Fear and Familiarity in Die Vreemdeling [The Stranger] (2010)
Anton Krueger Chapter 7 - Theatre That Can Organize, Mobilize, Conscientize:
A Conversation with Mandla Mbothwe Chapter 8 - Performing the Language of the Body in My Mother Tongue:
A Conversation with Faniswa Yisa Chapter 9 - Magnet Theatre and the Moving Body
Jennie Reznek Chapter 10 - Ideas Dying to be Born:
A Conversation with Craig Leo Chapter 11 - The Creative Flow of Arresting, Exquisite Fabric:
A Conversation with Illka Louw Chapter 12 - Embodied Practice that Troubles Fixed Narratives of Identity, History and Memory
Yvette Hutchison Magnet’s Recipe for Considered, Chapter 13 - Conscious Theatre-Making:
A Conversation with Frances Marek Chapter 14 - The Performance Labours of Magnet and Jazzart’s Cargo (2007)
Megan Lewis Chapter 15 - Making Space for Community: Magnet Theatre ‘Intervenes’ in Khayelitsha
Gay Morris Chapter 16 - Vividly Feeling the Extremes of Being in the World:
A Conversation with Margie Pankhurst Chapter 17 - By Telling Stories We Can Learn Something from Life:
A Conversation with Thando Doni Chapter 19 - Catalysing a Community: Magnet’s Clanwilliam Community Intervention Project
Lavona de Bruyn Chapter 19 - Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural Dialogue
Elliot Leffler Chapter 20 - Keeping Theatre Alive in the Community:
A Conversation with Zwelakhe Khuse Chapter 21 - Magnet Never Forgets its People:
A Conversation with Nolovuyo Sam
