The Thenx Ladies: The People Shall Kurk, By Sarah Nuttall
“Theoretically, performance studies is wide open; practically, it has developed in a certain way” (Bial, 2004: 5). Creating artworks seen as significant forms does not happen through the adherence to traditional theatre codes and conventions; instead, works that contain an air of suchness what do you mean by this? and otherness are brave breaks with the known. Theatre-making is about creating visual images that show as opposed to tell the story through dynamic and different means. It’s about breaking the rules and pushing boundaries in search of truth and reality within the smokescreen of theatricality. Good
This essay proposes to discuss ‘othering’ as proposed outlined/suggested/discussed by Sarah Nuttall in her presentation of two autobiographies that received conflicting reviews and the overall notion of looking to memory to consolidate the past and the present. It will also look closely at the Augusto Boal reading to illustrate the effectiveness of my chosen case study ‘The thenx ladies:The people shall kurk’ and a brief look at Gcina Mhlophe’s recollection of her character building you need to make it clear to us that she is creating a …show more content…
From a memory based recollection of the party where the young girl was last seen to an imaginary conjecture of what the court case may have been like. The play literally not needed, delete reads as a visual collision between past and present. In looking to memory for accuracy, Sarah Nuttal states; ‘The integration of the past to the present may be one stage in the process of healing, or in the making of memory but to heal and to remember is also the freedom to find and ask more questions to let the unspeakable both then and now filter in to open up or consciousness’ (Nuttal,S,1998) The use of this quote is good, but you have used the same quote twice. Either find a different one or use only one section
This essay proposes to discuss ‘othering’ as proposed outlined/suggested/discussed by Sarah Nuttall in her presentation of two autobiographies that received conflicting reviews and the overall notion of looking to memory to consolidate the past and the present. It will also look closely at the Augusto Boal reading to illustrate the effectiveness of my chosen case study ‘The thenx ladies:The people shall kurk’ and a brief look at Gcina Mhlophe’s recollection of her character building you need to make it clear to us that she is creating a …show more content…
From a memory based recollection of the party where the young girl was last seen to an imaginary conjecture of what the court case may have been like. The play literally not needed, delete reads as a visual collision between past and present. In looking to memory for accuracy, Sarah Nuttal states; ‘The integration of the past to the present may be one stage in the process of healing, or in the making of memory but to heal and to remember is also the freedom to find and ask more questions to let the unspeakable both then and now filter in to open up or consciousness’ (Nuttal,S,1998) The use of this quote is good, but you have used the same quote twice. Either find a different one or use only one section