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PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE A Tense South Africa Performs Megan Lewis 33rd Annual National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa, June 28âJuly 7, 2007. T hirteen years after the official dismantling of apartheid, South Africa is still wrestling with its identity as a nation and a new democracy. The 2007 National Arts Festival (NAF) in Grahamstown, the worldâs largest theatre festival outside Edinburgh, revealed a panoply of interrogative formsâfrom dance to theatre to visual art to stagings of personal identitiesâthat explored the shameful past, the corrupt yet developing present, and the uncertain future. The politics of belonging, dislocation, gender, voice, and identity formation(s) echoed through the two-week, sunshinedrenched festival, which included offerings on a Main and Fringe circuit. The social debates and realities of contemporary Southern Africa informed and troubled much of the work at this yearâs festival. To the north, Zimbabwe is collapsing under Robert Mugabeâs draconian leadership and South Africaâs African National Congress (ANC) government refuses to intervene. As satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys describes it in his performance, Evita for President!, Zimbabwe is âa big black hole, a pigment of our © 2008 Megan Lewis imagination . . . Our policy of quiet diplomacy has been so successful
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: May 1, 2008
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