Part four : Introduction [Stanislavsky in the world : the systems and its transformations across continents]

Abstract

Scholarship about theatre and performance in Africa is often framed in ways that overshadows actor training practices on the African continent. Recurrent themes around which such scholarship is organized include applied and community based theatre and performance (sometimes referred to as Theatre for Development) , socio-political playwriting, indigenous performance, and theatre companies’ operation. Consequently, training histories and explorations are, in such sources, consistently conspicuous by their absence.