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Cape Town’s Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, as well as perspectives from performers, artists and scholars, this book analyses Magnet’s many productions and presents a rich compendium of the work of one of the most vital physical theatre companies in Africa.
Megan Lewis is assistant professor of theatre history and dramaturgy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Anton Krueger is a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama at Rhodes University in South Africa.
Chapter 1 - Plotting the Magnetic Field: Origins and TrajectoriesMegan Lewis and Anton KruegerChapter 2 - Making Space for Ideas: The Knowledge Work of Magnet TheatreMark FleishmanChapter 3 - An Activist Company Inventing a Future:A Conversation with Neo MuyangaChapter 4 - ‘Being There’: The Evolution of Performance Aesthetics from Medea (1994–96) to The Magnet Theatre ‘Migration’ Plays (2012)Miki FlockemannChapter 5 - The Full Gamut of an Ideal Company:A Conversation with Jay PatherChapter 6 - The Implacable Grandeur of the Stranger: Ruminations on Fear and Familiarity in Die Vreemdeling [The Stranger] (2010)Anton KruegerChapter 7 - Theatre That Can Organize, Mobilize, Conscientize:A Conversation with Mandla MbothweChapter 8 - Performing the Language of the Body in My Mother Tongue: A Conversation with Faniswa YisaChapter 9 - Magnet Theatre and the Moving BodyJennie ReznekChapter 10 - Ideas Dying to be Born:A Conversation with Craig LeoChapter 11 - The Creative Flow of Arresting, Exquisite Fabric:A Conversation with Illka LouwChapter 12 - Embodied Practice that Troubles Fixed Narratives of Identity, History and MemoryYvette HutchisonMagnet’s Recipe for Considered, Chapter 13 - Conscious Theatre-Making:A Conversation with Frances MarekChapter 14 - The Performance Labours of Magnet and Jazzart’s Cargo (2007)Megan LewisChapter 15 - Making Space for Community: Magnet Theatre ‘Intervenes’ in KhayelitshaGay MorrisChapter 16 - Vividly Feeling the Extremes of Being in the World:A Conversation with Margie PankhurstChapter 17 - By Telling Stories We Can Learn Something from Life:A Conversation with Thando DoniChapter 19 - Catalysing a Community: Magnet’s Clanwilliam Community Intervention ProjectLavona de BruynChapter 19 - Bursting the Bubble of Play: Making Space for Intercultural DialogueElliot LefflerChapter 20 - Keeping Theatre Alive in the Community:A Conversation with Zwelakhe KhuseChapter 21 - Magnet Never Forgets its People:A Conversation with Nolovuyo Sam
