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WHOONGA WARS

  In May this year I was tasked with heading up a writing and theatre-making workshop with community theatre participants from in and around KwaZulu-Natal.…
neilcoppen
September 10, 2014

An Assorted Pick

commentry

Malema, Power and the Performative Turn

The following is an extract taken from an essay I wrote in 2008 exploring South African politics and the Performative turn. I print an extract…
interviews

Retracing History by Mary Corrigall (published in The Sunday Independent, June 05, 2011)

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musings

Prayer to Bereaucratic Angles

Hell is full. The earth its new holding cell. And you, you bureaucratic angels heaped in heavenly conference. Turning a blind halo while filing reports,…
theatre
3 shorts extracts from ‘TIN BUCKET DRUM’
Short stories
Obscurity of Objects
articles
LIVING WITH(IN) HISTORY- Dundee, Kwa-Zulu Natal
articles
The Tale of two Faiths
Childrens story
The African Aurora
interviews
Extract from the book:Theatre Directing in South Africa