Claire French

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Multiple and simultaneous lines of thought that resonate in the meandering nature of performance processes. An ear toward vulnerability and claims to selfhood, attempting to interrogate some of the ethical problems within applied and social justice theatre.

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‘Theatre of the real’: how artists at Perth Fringe World are stripping down to reveal their vulnerabilities

Claire French, University of the Witwatersrand. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. At this year’s Fringe World festival in Perth, the “theatre of the real” is everywhere: theatre, comedy and drag all speak directly to our reality, played against a background […]
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Decolonising Facilitator Training: Voice messages from the South African day to the Australian night

I have had the pleasure of collaborating with performance practitioner Sibusiso Mkhize since the beginning of the year as part of my postdoctoral research Decolonising language ideologies in the body at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This is a multilingual practice-as-research project supported by an Arts Research Africa and the […]
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Performing the languages we live

This blog post is a copy of its original publication on the Creative Multilingualism blog here ‘We breathe English, but we don’t live it’ says Dion Nkomo, educator at the University of Cape Town.* Nkomo’s claim echoes the powerful voices before him of South African resistance against colonialism, apartheid and […]
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