The comic theatre of Stephen Black in South Africa

Authors

Stephen Gray

Abstract

Stephen Black's comic theatre has vanished from contemporary South Africa as effectively as its tangible appurtenances: the elaborate Edwardian theatre buildings, the palimpsests of improvised scripts, the photos and other documents, its living performers and even its audiences. There are cultural-historical reasons for this. Time passes; ways of entertainment die; aspirations change. But Black, a master entrepreneur of the colonial heyday, should not have been so forgotten.

Recommended Citation

Gray, Stephen, The comic theatre of Stephen Black in South Africa, Kunapipi, 4(1), 1982.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol4/iss1/7