South African performance and archives of memory

Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK

• Introduction1. The TRC’s Reconfiguring of the Past: Remembering and Forgetting 2. Dramatising the TRC: The role of theatre practitioners in exploring the past 3. Staging a nation: the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park4. Performing the African Renaissance and the ‘Rainbow Nation’5. Post-apartheid repertoires of memoryBibliography

Hutchison’s book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on South African performance, exploring the tensions between the archives of the past and the repertoires of the present in South Africa after 1994., Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Modern Drama, 20 May 2015‘The book provided valuable insights and provoked deep thought, as well as providing a well of information on different topics.’N Jade Gibson, Wits City Institute, University of Witwatersrand, South African Theatre Journal‘For any reader interested to learn more on the current state of performance and theatre in South Africa, Hutchison’s study will provide an extremely valuable and informative account of the field. Most impressive is the ample space she grants for close readings of a host of recent theatrical productions.’Ed Charlton, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE) 2016/4(2)