Beer halls, pass laws and just cause
Beer Halls, Pass Laws and Just Cause will be performed at KwaMuhle Museum.
STUDENT Stephanie Jenkins will be bringing history to life with her play Beer Halls, Pass Laws and Just Cause at the KwaMuhle Museum on Saturday, 14 March.
As part of her PhD Jenkins is conducting a study exploring the role museum theatre can have in teaching, questioning and learning about history. She is staging a number of shows specifically targeting Grade 11 history learners. To this end, she has been contacted the schools directly for their attendance. She also wants the public to experience the show so is staging two public performances on 14 March.
The performance piece entitled Beer Halls, Pass Laws and Just Cause and is taking place among the exhibits in the museum. It involves three actor-guides who take the audience around the rooms of the museum while acting out a number of historical characters and evoking narratives associated with the history of the museum. There is an immersive element as the audience also becomes ‘part’ of the show as they move with the actor-guides from rooms such as the beer hall replica to the yard where people in the past had their passes stamped.
The other main focus of the museum that is explored in the play is the role the beer hall had as a form of control and resistance during apartheid.
Through the play the audience will be encouraged to encounter history in a new way as they journey with the actor-guides through the museum and the narratives present.
Public performances are on Saturday, 14 March at noon and 2pm at the KwaMuhle Museum. Admission is free, however booking is essential. WhatsApp only to Stephanie on 081 846 7331 to book.
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