Postgraduate Students – Masters Students
Joslyn Cox
Boys to Men: Negotiating hegemonic masculinity using dance as a mechanism to explore the performativity of boyhood into manhood within Hilton College Grade 11 Dramatic Arts learners (2012 – 2014).
Supervisor: Lliane Loots
Meg Logan
Interrogating the placement of Rob Murray and Liezl De Kock’s visual theatre work in the landscape of South African physical theatre: 1980 to the present day. (Working title)
Supervisor: Tamar Meskin
Sbonelo Mgilane
“Did She say that!?”: An investigation into the transgressive race and gender politics of two South African women stand-up comedians: Tumi Morake and Celeste Ntuli.
Supervisor: Lliane Loots
Marcia Peschke
The Living Dead Girl: A performance art exploration of poor/working class women of colour as sites of violence in contemporary South Africa.
Supervisor: Dr. Miranda Young-Jahangeer
Shirdika Pillai
(Not) Enough: An exploration into the representations of abuse in Indian South African theatre post-1994. (Working title)
Supervisor: Tamar Meskin
Prosperity Shange
Theatre in Education and Township Schools (Working Area)
Supervisors: Dr. Miranda Young-Jahangeer & Tamar Meskin
Princess Sibanda
Performing Alternatives: Towards the negotiation of space for sexual minorities in Zimbabwe.
Supervisor: Dr. Miranda Young-Jahangeer
Themi Venturas
“IN SEARCH OF THE WATER”: interrogating cross-continental theatrical dialogues around intercultural performance with a special focus on the 2013/4 “HOPES AND MEMORIES” project that transects borders between South Africa, France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Supervisor: Lliane Loots
Tamara Wentzel
“Hear us out – Let us speak!” Using Drama and performance to facilitate the confidence and communication of teenagers at Constance Children’s home, Durban.
Supervisor: Dr. Miranda Young-Jahangeer