Description: First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity? These are just of the questions addressed in this book.
Review Quotes: "For me, I think one of the directions theatre must take if it is going to make a change is you have to start teaching reconciliation; you must start teaching people how to vote, how to know what is democracy, what politics offer, what is tolerance. The only way that can happen is if people with money start also changing their minds..."
-From an interview with Ramolao Makhene
"The quest for renewal reaches optimal levels when non-conformist, critical and even iconoclastic attitudes towards every form of ideological posturing and pretense are adopted."
-Andries Walter Oliphant of "Staffrider, 1992