This article focuses on darkness in performance, not only as a condition for playing, immersion or imagination (as in the recent trend for “theatre in the dark”), but also as the “stuff” of vision – both its object and its ...

In 1984, Duma Kumalo was sentenced to death under the apartheid law of common purpose. He was only spared by the transitional negotiations that led to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. However, his suffering ...