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Signs on stage: Translating theatre into a sign language
Sign languages, the visual-gestural languages of Deaf communities, lack a written form.
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Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience
Gaulier, Armelle and Denis-Constant Martin. 2017. Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience. African Minds. https://www.africanmind...
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Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2022. Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul. Journal of the African Literature Association...
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Performing Sustainability in West Africa Cultural Practices and Policies for Sustainable Development
Lettau, Meike, Christopher Yusufu Mtaku and Eric Debrah Otchere. 2022. Performing Sustainability in West Africa Cultural Practices and Polic...
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Introduction – Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and Its Dispersal across Africa
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2022. “Introduction – Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and Its Dispersal across Africa.” In Stand-up Comedy in Afric...
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Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2021. Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. Makhanda, South Africa: NISC Press/African Humanities As...
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Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2022. Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah. Journal of Afr...
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Joke performance mechanics in Nigerian stand-up comedy
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2021. Joke performance mechanics in Nigerian stand-up comedy. South African Theatre Journal, 34(2), 99–112. https://doi.org/1...
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The road between and The call
Mkhululi Mabija and Paul Castles as a librettist-compose team working on two companion pieces of alternative music theatre.
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Finding Homer
FINDING HOMER is a contemporary music-theater work.
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Cape Town Harmonies,Memory, Humour & Resilience
Gaulier, Armelle and Denis-Constant Martin. 2017. Cape Town Harmonies,Memory, Humour & Resilience. Cape Town: African Minds. http://www.afri...
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Introduction: Performative Commemoration of Painful Pasts
Schult, Tanja. 2018. Introduction: Performative Commemoration of Painful Pasts. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 14(3), 1–11....
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A Study of the Interplay of Taboo Subjects and Censorship in Determining the Limits of Humour/Insult in the Four Regions of Africa (North, South, West and East) and their Standup Jokes
Ancient humour arts exemplify how satire creates a sense of community from shared laughter.
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The “As-If” reality of puppet theatre
While at STIAS Jane Taylor will be launching creative/intellectual projects involving object theatre and puppetry arts.
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Acting on Stage
Role-playing on stage, e.g. an actor playing Shakespeare’s Richard III, clearly differs from role-playing in real life, e.
