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Essay
How The Last Country Amplifies Stories of Immigration and Belonging in South Africa
by Tonderai Chiyindiko
4 February 2026
Video
The Administration of Art and Culture Organizations  / L'administration des Organisations Artistiques et Culturelles
Art Management in Africa / La Gestion des Arts en Afrique
Tuesday 15 April 2025
Egypt and South Africa
Essay
Creating Sound Dramaturgy in the Visual Radio Plays
by Tonderai Chiyindiko
28 August 2024
Unrehearsed Futures event poster.
Series

Unrehearsed Futures: Conversations in Theatre Pedagogy

Possibility, Plurality, and Planetarity

Unrehearsed Futures is a series of public conversations about the realities of teaching and practicing drama in these changing times, held between global drama school heads, performance trainers, theatre makers and drama scholars.

Series

Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town South Africa

Aphra Behn from Guerilla Girls On Tour reports on the 2015 Women Playwrights International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Series

Theatre in South Africa

A nation characterized by its Apartheid legacy and struggle for liberation, we hear the story of a nation reborn and the art at its center through the voices of some of its most dynamic artists.

Series

South African Theatre Artists at National Arts Festival

A nation characterized by its Apartheid legacy and struggle for liberation, we hear the story of a South Africa reborn, and the art at its center, through the voices of some of its most dynamic artists.

Essay
12 February 2015

Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B poses actors in tableau vivants that nod to 19th century human zoos, and Southwest African concentration camps. Patty Gone charts the controversy around the show and his own experience of it. 

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