Robert Mshengu Kavanagh played an active part in the development of South African theatre in the 1970s through his participation in Experimental Theatre Workshop ’71 in Johannesburg, and as founding editor of S’ketsh’, a magazine covering black and non-segregated theatre in South Africa. After leaving the country in 1976, he did his doctorate at Leeds University and then played a leading role in founding theatre arts departments at Addis Ababa University and the University of Zimbabwe. In 2012 he was awarded the Ibsen Prize for a project on negotiating Ibsen in Southern Africa. He has lived in Zimbabwe since 1984.Ian Steadman, former professor and Chair of Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of numerous essays on South African theatre during the 1980s and 1990s, and founding co-editor of the South African Theatre Journal, is retired and lives in Oxford, UK.

Ground-breaking ... arguably the single most important study of South African theatre.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Cultural and Social Relations in South Africa before 19762. The Struggle for Social Hegemony3. Alternative Hegemony in the Making4. The Develolpment of Theatre in South Africa up to 19765. 'No-Man's Land' - Fugard, and the Black Intellectuals6. 'A Tremendously Exciting Inter-Racial Enterprise'7. 'A Deep Insight into the Loves and Hates of Our People'8. 'A Dialogue of Confrontation'9. Conclusion: 'The Future in Their Hands'NotesBibliography

Robert Mshengu Kavanagh played an active part in the development of South African theatre in the 1970s through his participation in Experimental Theatre Workshop ’71 in Johannesburg, and as founding editor of S’ketsh’, a magazine covering black and non-segregated theatre in South Africa. After leaving the country in 1976, he did his doctorate at Leeds University and then played a leading role in founding theatre arts departments at Addis Ababa University and the University of Zimbabwe. In 2012 he was awarded the Ibsen Prize for a project on negotiating Ibsen in Southern Africa. He has lived in Zimbabwe since 1984.Ian Steadman, former professor and Chair of Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of numerous essays on South African theatre during the 1980s and 1990s, and founding co-editor of the South African Theatre Journal, is retired and lives in Oxford, UK.

Ground-breaking ... arguably the single most important study of South African theatre.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Cultural and Social Relations in South Africa before 19762. The Struggle for Social Hegemony3. Alternative Hegemony in the Making4. The Develolpment of Theatre in South Africa up to 19765. 'No-Man's Land' - Fugard, and the Black Intellectuals6. 'A Tremendously Exciting Inter-Racial Enterprise'7. 'A Deep Insight into the Loves and Hates of Our People'8. 'A Dialogue of Confrontation'9. Conclusion: 'The Future in Their Hands'NotesBibliography

Robert Mshengu Kavanagh played an active part in the development of South African theatre in the 1970s through his participation in Experimental Theatre Workshop ’71 in Johannesburg, and as founding editor of S’ketsh’, a magazine covering black and non-segregated theatre in South Africa. After leaving the country in 1976, he did his doctorate at Leeds University and then played a leading role in founding theatre arts departments at Addis Ababa University and the University of Zimbabwe. In 2012 he was awarded the Ibsen Prize for a project on negotiating Ibsen in Southern Africa. He has lived in Zimbabwe since 1984.Ian Steadman, former professor and Chair of Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of numerous essays on South African theatre during the 1980s and 1990s, and founding co-editor of the South African Theatre Journal, is retired and lives in Oxford, UK.

Ground-breaking ... arguably the single most important study of South African theatre.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Cultural and Social Relations in South Africa before 19762. The Struggle for Social Hegemony3. Alternative Hegemony in the Making4. The Develolpment of Theatre in South Africa up to 19765. 'No-Man's Land' - Fugard, and the Black Intellectuals6. 'A Tremendously Exciting Inter-Racial Enterprise'7. 'A Deep Insight into the Loves and Hates of Our People'8. 'A Dialogue of Confrontation'9. Conclusion: 'The Future in Their Hands'NotesBibliography