Towards a theatre of disobedience

This follows in the oeuvre of performance writing as research within the contemporary age of crisis that interrogates how a reconsideration of decolonial theatre practice is the consideration of disobedience in performing protest. Tracing the embodied argument where text informs the performative is a presentation of several case studies informed by locus as biopictures, or meta-pictures, but in this case, they are described and not visualized. What matters here is the paradigm of protest alongside disobedience as a performance trope and mechanism calling for a theatre of disobedience as a generic term for theatre of revolt, interspersed with inter-disciplines. It is in the entanglements of the interdisciplinarity where a mythologizing suggests a specific locus to the practice of disobedience as performing protest as much as it includes allegorical resilience in the age of crisis.

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South African Theatre Journal
Published
2026-06-29
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2026.2659005
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Theatre and Performance Studies
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Towards a theatre of disobedience

Myer Taub
South African Theatre Journal
Theatre and Performance Studies
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Towards a theatre of disobedience

Myer Taub
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Abstract

This follows in the oeuvre of performance writing as research within the contemporary age of crisis that interrogates how a reconsideration of decolonial theatre practice is the consideration of disobedience in performing protest. Tracing the embodied argument where text informs the performative is a presentation of several case studies informed by locus as biopictures, or meta-pictures, but in this case, they are described and not visualized. What matters here is the paradigm of protest alongside disobedience as a performance trope and mechanism calling for a theatre of disobedience as a generic term for theatre of revolt, interspersed with inter-disciplines. It is in the entanglements of the interdisciplinarity where a mythologizing suggests a specific locus to the practice of disobedience as performing protest as much as it includes allegorical resilience in the age of crisis.

South African Theatre Journal
University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
Reduced inequalities, Peace, Justice and strong institutions
Openalex Percentile: Top 3%
Theatre and Performance Studies
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