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Sound patterns as connectors: An experimental production of Three Sisters.
Lemmer, Karina
Lemmer, Karina
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The actor is tasked with embodying text in order to portray the characters’ intentions. this article shows that such a complex task escalates when the actor performs in a second language. In South Africa, where eleven official languages are embraced, the multiplicity and crossover of spoken languages is a daily challenge for actors and theatre makers, leading to a preference for physical performances, which limits the use of text. the production of embodied sound patterns embedded in a text informed the creative process of an experimental production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. It was created with a second-language cast (speakers of Setswana and Afrikaans) whose over-arching goal was to consider the embodied patterns of pre-linguistic expression as a theatre-making tool. When reflecting on their work, the actors indicated that their explorations facilitated a connection with the text in English and generated the relevant
dynamics for the play’s sociopolitical themes to be adequately ‘translated’ to a contemporary multilingual South African context. Karina Lemmer is a senior lecturer in the department of performing arts at tshwane university of technology in Gauteng, where she teaches acting and voice. she has directed a number of multilingual productions, including Buried Voices (2018) and Motlotlegi (2019), and has published in the Voice and Speech Review (2018).
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2021-11-01
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Cambridge university press
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Embodied text, Second-language performance, Prosody, Physicality, Drawing
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