{"product_id":"magnet-theatre-three-decades-of-making-space-9781783205370","title":"Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCape 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 - Plotting the Magnetic Field: Origins and Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e Megan Lewis and Anton Krueger Chapter 2 - Making Space for Ideas: The Knowledge Work of Magnet Theatre\u003cbr\u003e Mark Fleishman Chapter 3 - An Activist Company Inventing a Future:\u003cbr\u003e 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)\u003cbr\u003e Miki Flockemann Chapter 5 - The Full Gamut of an Ideal Company:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Jay Pather Chapter 6 - The Implacable Grandeur of the Stranger: Ruminations on Fear and Familiarity in Die Vreemdeling [The Stranger] (2010)\u003cbr\u003e Anton Krueger Chapter 7 - Theatre That Can Organize, Mobilize, Conscientize:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Mandla Mbothwe Chapter 8 - Performing the Language of the Body in My Mother Tongue: \u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Faniswa Yisa Chapter 9 - Magnet Theatre and the Moving Body\u003cbr\u003e Jennie Reznek Chapter 10 - Ideas Dying to be Born:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Craig Leo Chapter 11 - The Creative Flow of Arresting, Exquisite Fabric:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Illka Louw Chapter 12 - Embodied Practice that Troubles Fixed Narratives of Identity, History and Memory\u003cbr\u003e Yvette Hutchison Magnet’s Recipe for Considered, Chapter 13 - Conscious Theatre-Making:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Frances Marek Chapter 14 - The Performance Labours of Magnet and Jazzart’s Cargo (2007)\u003cbr\u003e Megan Lewis Chapter 15 - Making Space for Community: Magnet Theatre ‘Intervenes’ in Khayelitsha\u003cbr\u003e Gay Morris Chapter 16 - Vividly Feeling the Extremes of Being in the World:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Margie Pankhurst Chapter 17 - By Telling Stories We Can Learn Something from Life:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Thando Doni Chapter 19 - Catalysing a Community: Magnet’s Clanwilliam Community Intervention Project\u003cbr\u003e Lavona de Bruyn Chapter 19 - Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e Elliot Leffler Chapter 20 - Keeping Theatre Alive in the Community:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Zwelakhe Khuse Chapter 21 - Magnet Never Forgets its People:\u003cbr\u003e A Conversation with Nolovuyo Sam","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042264482135,"sku":"9781783205370","price":33.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783205370.jpg?v=1750953689","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/magnet-theatre-three-decades-of-making-space-9781783205370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}