- Title
- Umabatha: global and local
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Date Issued
- 2004
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- vital:7032
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007364
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00138390408691324
- Description
- preprint
- Description
- There can be few shows that test the dimensions and pitfalls of 'globalised' theatre as thoroughly as Welcome Msomi's Umabatha. The worldwide success of the show, in box-office terms, can hardly be argued with. And yet, in its very conception, the vehicle is so riven by intrinsic cultural, theatrical, class and 'nationist' tensions that different audiences cannot but reap utterly different experiences, depending on their own cultural and intellectual inheritance.The show is an instance where theatre practice (sometimes) obfuscates political and aesthetic discourse, showing how easily cultures miss each other and fail to connect, and how easily specific historical, geographical and imperial associations are swamped by shallow 'globalised' audience response.
- Format
- 19 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English Studies in Africa
- Relation
- Wright, L.S. (2004) Umabatha: global and local. English Studies in Africa, 47 (2). pp. 97-114.
- Relation
- English Studies in Africa volume 47 number 2 97 114 2004 1943-8117
- Rights
- Wright, Laurence
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English Studies in Africa Self-archiving Policy
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