ReTAGS Speaker Series | Act 3 | Mwenya Kabwe & Iman Isaacs
Title
ReTAGS Speaker Series | Act 3 | Mwenya Kabwe & Iman Isaacs
Description
Act 3 of the ReTAGS Speaker Series.
This Speaker Series we were delighted to have co-directors, Mwenya Kabwe and Iman Isaacs speaking about their Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) production of 'Women of Owu', mounted at the Baxter theatre in 2021, with CTDPS graduating performance students.
They discussed their conceptual approaches to the project, the politics of working with a Nigerian adaptation of a Greek text in a South African context, and their exploration of song, animal imagery and costume to create language for an African past, present and future.
Presented online (Zoom meeting) on Thursday 31 March 2022 at 12:00 SAST. Chaired by Prof. Mark Fleishman.
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Mwenya Kabwe is Senior Lecturer at the CTDPS and coordinates the 4th year Acting Studio and course in Professional Practice, as well as conducts postgraduate teaching and supervision. Kabwe is a Zambian-born maker of theatre and performance, facilitator of creative processes, a performer, writer, arts educator, and scholar. Kabwe’s creative practice and research is focused on contemporary African theatre and performance, migration, immersive and site specific performance work, live art, collaborative and interdisciplinary art making and re-imagining African futures. She has lectured at the UCT Drama Department, Wits School of Arts division of Theatre & Performance, and the Market Theatre Laboratory. She is a PhD candidate at the CTDPS and a co-curator of Unrehearsed Futures.
Iman Isaacs is a performer, theatre maker, director and educator. She graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT) with a BA (2011) and a Master’s degree (2018) in Theatre and Performance. Iman has worked and performed both locally and abroad in both the film and theatre industry. In 2016 she was awarded the Distelle Jong Ster award at the Suidoosterfees for her role in Nat (directed by Penny Youngleson). Alongside Raezeen Wentworth, she received a Fleur de Cap and a KANNA nomination for best director for Klippies van die Grond (2018). Iman currently lectures part-time at the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at UCT and teaches Voice as part of Magnet Theatre’s Training Program.
This Speaker Series we were delighted to have co-directors, Mwenya Kabwe and Iman Isaacs speaking about their Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) production of 'Women of Owu', mounted at the Baxter theatre in 2021, with CTDPS graduating performance students.
They discussed their conceptual approaches to the project, the politics of working with a Nigerian adaptation of a Greek text in a South African context, and their exploration of song, animal imagery and costume to create language for an African past, present and future.
Presented online (Zoom meeting) on Thursday 31 March 2022 at 12:00 SAST. Chaired by Prof. Mark Fleishman.
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Mwenya Kabwe is Senior Lecturer at the CTDPS and coordinates the 4th year Acting Studio and course in Professional Practice, as well as conducts postgraduate teaching and supervision. Kabwe is a Zambian-born maker of theatre and performance, facilitator of creative processes, a performer, writer, arts educator, and scholar. Kabwe’s creative practice and research is focused on contemporary African theatre and performance, migration, immersive and site specific performance work, live art, collaborative and interdisciplinary art making and re-imagining African futures. She has lectured at the UCT Drama Department, Wits School of Arts division of Theatre & Performance, and the Market Theatre Laboratory. She is a PhD candidate at the CTDPS and a co-curator of Unrehearsed Futures.
Iman Isaacs is a performer, theatre maker, director and educator. She graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT) with a BA (2011) and a Master’s degree (2018) in Theatre and Performance. Iman has worked and performed both locally and abroad in both the film and theatre industry. In 2016 she was awarded the Distelle Jong Ster award at the Suidoosterfees for her role in Nat (directed by Penny Youngleson). Alongside Raezeen Wentworth, she received a Fleur de Cap and a KANNA nomination for best director for Klippies van die Grond (2018). Iman currently lectures part-time at the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at UCT and teaches Voice as part of Magnet Theatre’s Training Program.
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Author
Keywords
Greek tragedy
Theatre adaptation
Theatre studies
Gender based violence
Osofisan
Women of Owu
South African Theatre
Language
Tragedy
Lamentation
Publication
Date Published
2022-03-31
RETAGS_Academic-Output-Type
Presentations
