caa a22 4500 38636303X CHVBK 20180307111923.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00003341 doi S0266464X00003341 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00003341 South Africa's National Theatre: the Market or the Street? [Elektronische Daten] The original Theatre Quarterly devoted a large portion of one issue-TQ28 (1977—78) to the theatre of South Africa. It is, of course, important to relate new developments in the theatre of that troubled nation to the context of its changing political situation - considering, for example, how far a reflection of the realities of the urban black experience is now more typical than the ‘acceptable' face represented by the once-popular ‘tribal musicals'. Here. David Graver and Loren Kruger contrast two approaches to the theatre of anti-apartheid. The internationally known (and now relatively stable) Market Theatre of Johannesburg, they argue, today largely reaches an educated, liberal, and elite audience, and sustains what is essentially a European literary tradition: but other plays written and directed by blacks — notably since the Soweto uprising of 1976 — have developed a more appropriately African style. Often, these, have emerged from the theatre companies within the black townships, such as the Bachaki Theatre Company - whose Top Down is here the focus of analysis. David Graver is currently Mellon Fellow in Drama at Stanford University: his articles have appeared in Theatre Journal and in NTQ, and he is now completing a book on the theory and practice of the avant-garde. Loren Kruger teaches in the University of Chicago, has published in Theatre Journal and the Brecht Yearbook, and is working on a study of theatres with national aspirations in Europe and the USA. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Graver David Kruger Loren New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/19(1989-08), 272-281 0266-464X 5:19<272 1989 5 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00003341 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00003341 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Graver David NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kruger Loren NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/19(1989-08), 272-281 0266-464X 5:19<272 1989 5 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge