Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South

The Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South (ReTAGS) project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has now reached its conclusion (2019–2025).
While the project is no longer active, its digital archive and associated outputs remain accessible as a resource for future scholarship.

ABOUT

Learn more about the ReTAGS research project: the rationale, the vision and the team that are dedicated to this research.

REHEARSAL ARCHIVE

Take time to explore our unique rehearsal archive. This comprehensive collection of archival material contains video, images and audio from the very first rehearsal right through to the first technical runs.

FIELD RESEARCH

Explore the oral histories and interviews that is at the centre of the ReTAGS fieldwork research. Listen to audio interviews, read full transcripts, and engage in the multiple histories of Tragedy on the African continent, both on and off the stage.

PRODUCTIONS

Explore the archived productions of adapted tragedy plays that have happened on the African continent, aswell as the artistic research based productions of the ReTAGS project.

EXHIBITIONS

Take a journey in our digitally curated exhibition sites, to see how different researchers and practitioners have engaged with the notion of Tragedy.

PUBLICATIONS

As the research is a multilayered approach to artistic investigation and research, so to is the outputs of our approach to publication.