Personally, I like doing practical theatre and I did miss it last year, I am a bit shy but I really enjoy it! Mrs.A will be doing a lot more practical work with us this year because it is an essential part of theatre, and we lacked in this area last year. We aren't really used to doing much practical stuff because we only occasionally did it last year, so in the beginning everyone was a bit hesitant but as we got into it everyone had fun. Yesterday, we looked at the "Whose Line is it Anyway" clips, and today we did some practical improvisation! Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, director and actor who writes plays about apartheid (" Playwright Athol Fugard Looks Back On Aging And Apartheid"), Fugard was apart of the protest theatre movement in South Africa, and his plays are famous around the world. The cultural context of apartheid thus creating protest theatre in the 1970's and 1980's ("South African Theatre" "Theatre in South Africa"), protest theatre about apartheid are some of the most famous plays from South Africa. Later in the 1970's when South Africa was boycotted by British and American actors, a unique style of contemporary theatre flourished in South Africa as a result of no external influences ("Origins", "Theatre in South Africa"). Theatre in South Africa started as part of the culture, it was and still is, a way to tell stories. If this was true, then all South African theatre traditions before the 1970's would be unaccounted for. This is really important to me because many people have the perception that theatre is that it has to be on stage and it has to be a story told orally. "First, what is South African theater? The question evokes the response: what is theater?" One thing I found whilst researching, which I thought was really relevant was something Dean Opperman wrote in his essay titled " Revolution and conscience: South African theater, June 1976 to February 1990". Indigenous tribes used and still use theatre to pass on stories, practice traditions and culture and sometimes theatre forms are used in religious ceremonies ("Origins"). South Africa is home to a wide array of people from different backgrounds and cultures,indigenous South African's have many theatre traditions in many forms, dance, music and story telling ("Origins").
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