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dc.contributor.advisorAjayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo
dc.contributor.authorWrolson, Joy Leigh
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-18T04:05:34Z
dc.date.available2010-03-18T04:05:34Z
dc.date.issued2009-09-23
dc.date.submitted2009
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10571
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/5956
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the emerging aesthetics of panic theatre and shows how it uses memory and nostalgia to communicate with its hoped-for-but-often-absent audience. Using a theoretical approach that is informed by Maurice Vambe, Joseph Roach, and Marvin Carlson and their work regarding memory and performance, the dissertation examines how theatre artists use their memories or experiences of Theatre for Development (TfD), the pungwe or bira, to create a means to entertain and communicate with their prospective audiences during Zimbabwe's current crisis that surfaced around a constitutional crisis and land reform in the late 1990s and is yet to be resolved (in 2009). Panic theatre, I argue, emerged out of Zimbabwe's multivalent crises. As such, it uses these older forms of performance to raise a clarion call for help. Panic theatre uses reformative performance forms and their hidden texts to call for help and change using memories of these past performances. Memories of these forms and their role in policing and reforming abuses of authority give agency to theatre groups to do the same. Theatre groups can use the nhimbe and bira and other forms to mock those in authority and shame them and hopefully reform them. This dissertation is based off of field research funded by Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship and conducted from October 2004-2005.
dc.format.extent267 pages
dc.language.isoEN
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectTheater
dc.subjectTheatre for development
dc.subjectZimbabwe
dc.titleRe-Inventing Memory And Reforming Performances: A Genealogy Of Panic Theatre In Zimbabwe
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberUkpokodu, Peter
dc.contributor.cmtememberGronbeck-Tedesco, John
dc.contributor.cmtememberFalicov, Tamara
dc.contributor.cmtememberMacGonagle, Elizabeth
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineTheatre & Film
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
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kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid7078675
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