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Alternative Theatre: Reflecting a Multi-racial South African Society?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Coleen Angove
Coleen Angove
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Lectures in the Department of English, Potchefstroom University.
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When Barney Simon's play Cincinatti was presented at the Market Theatre in 1979, it epitomized a watershed event in the development of theatre in South Africa, anticipating a new tend towards a tradition of a multi-racial theatre. In 1965 legislation had forced racial segregation in the theatre. Pleas for the official desegregation of races in the theatre had finally been successful in 1977 and Cincinatti, sporting one of the first multi-racial casts, was symbolic of a reaching-out amongst different racial, cultural and lingual groups in a highly polarized South African society. Cincinatti was chosen by Hauptfleisch and Steadman to represent Alternative theatre in their anthology (South African Theatre, Four Plays and an Introduction, 1984), thereby acknowledging a new theatrical tradition on the South African theatre scene.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1992 , pp. 39 - 45
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1992

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