Theatre-making exchange: referencing South Africa’s workshop theatre-making

This workshop, led by Hamish Mabala Neill, is aimed at theatre-makers, directors, and performers, and will offer some insight into a theatre-making practice from a different global context.

South Africa’s theatre scene is known by key works like WOZA ALBERT, The Island, and Sophiatown – all of which drew from the theatre-making practices developed in the 60s and 70s that came as a result of the political apartheid imposed.

Importantly, this is NOT a South African theatre-making workshop. This does not yet exist in our context as there are so many streams, influences and styles present across our context. It is, however, a theatre-making workshop that highlight some of the common theatre making practices from the broader South African Theatre making scene.

Hamish Mabala Neill is a Global South Visiting Fellow in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is an Applied Drama/Theatre lecturer, project leader, and current Director of the Creative Research Hub (CRH) at Drama for Life, of the University of the Witwartersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hamish has worked on multiple, diverse, award winning (industry and civic), theatre-for-social-change projects including Through Positive Eyes (2012-13), AfriQueer (2015-17), and as initiator and lead of the celebrated applied theatre and public health project, Knowledge UNZIPPED (2016-2024).  

FREE.

Host or Publisher Theatre Studies University of Glasgow