In response to ‘performing homescapes’ this chapter engages concerns around migrancy and mobility, specifically in relation to the African continent. We consider how theatre as an artistic, spatial practice might serve as a form of critically, aesthetically engaged homescaping. The chapter looks to two theatrical works that take migrancy as their urgent theme: the play text, Hold Still (First performed in 2022, published by Wits University Press in 2025) by Nadia Davids, and the devised performance, African Exodus (2023), conceived and created by Sbusiso Shozi and Nhlanhla Mahlangu. Using Joanne Tompkins’ method for a heterotopic spatial analysis of theatre in dialogue with the notion of migritude as black migrant cultural production, we unpack how the works use creative practices to engage notions of migrancy, mobilities and home with the intention of shifting prejudicial perceptions, systems and social responses to migrancy.

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Staging Homescapes: Migrancy, Home-making and Theatre

  • Alexandra Halligey,
  • Mwenya B. Kabwe

摘要

In response to ‘performing homescapes’ this chapter engages concerns around migrancy and mobility, specifically in relation to the African continent. We consider how theatre as an artistic, spatial practice might serve as a form of critically, aesthetically engaged homescaping. The chapter looks to two theatrical works that take migrancy as their urgent theme: the play text, Hold Still (First performed in 2022, published by Wits University Press in 2025) by Nadia Davids, and the devised performance, African Exodus (2023), conceived and created by Sbusiso Shozi and Nhlanhla Mahlangu. Using Joanne Tompkins’ method for a heterotopic spatial analysis of theatre in dialogue with the notion of migritude as black migrant cultural production, we unpack how the works use creative practices to engage notions of migrancy, mobilities and home with the intention of shifting prejudicial perceptions, systems and social responses to migrancy.