Drama as Truth Commission: Reconciliation and Dealing with the Past in South African and Irish Theatre. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Drama as Truth Commission: Reconciliation and Dealing with the Past in South African and Irish Theatre. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)
- Main Title:
- Drama as Truth Commission: Reconciliation and Dealing with the Past in South African and Irish Theatre
- Authors:
- Parr, Connal
- Abstract:
- Abstract : South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is an internationally regarded – if contested – touchstone for transitional justice, but it functioned above all as exemplary theatre, bringing together thousands of disparate voices. Like the theatrical space generally, it provided a forum for differing narratives about the past to be aired in post-Apartheid South Africa. In Ireland, on the other hand, there has not been – nor are we likely to see – any truth commission. It is this essay's contention that drama is the nearest the society will get to exploring the past, with the theatre a safe space in which storytelling and debates are taking place beyond the impasse of the political culture. This article approaches this through four plays: Athol Fugard's The Train Driver and Owen McCafferty's Quietly (both 2012) and David Ireland's Cyprus Avenue and Mongiwekhaya's I See You (both 2016). All reflect complications of dialogue(s) taking place on the past, and themes of reconciliation, in their respective territories.
- Is Part Of:
- Interventions. Volume 23:Issue 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Interventions
- Issue:
- Volume 23:Issue 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 23, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0023-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 98
- Page End:
- 119
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-02
- Subjects:
- Conflict -- drama -- Ireland -- reconciliation -- South Africa -- truth commission
Postcolonialism -- Periodicals
325.3 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/riij20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/journal.asp?wasp=e14485f1e05c40ff8174d4bccfa787de&referrer=parent&backto=searchpublicationsresults, 3, 3;homemain, 1, 1; ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/1369801X.2020.1813611 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1369-801X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 4557.471859
British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 22516.xml