Mda, Zakes, <br/><br/>
When people play people :  development communication through theatre / 
Zakes Mda. 
 - x, 250 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Preface --  Acknowledgements --  Introduction: Development Communication in Africa --  Perspectives --  The development of theatre --  The Laedza Batanani experience --  The crucial problem of form and ideology --  A brief assessment --  Development communication models --  Definition of basic concepts --  Lesotho: A Case Study --  The problems of underdevelopment --  The communication environment --  Marotholi Travelling Theatre --  Traditional and Popular Media in Lesotho --  Theatre-for-Development as Communication --  People Play People: The Theatre of Marotholi --  Agitprop: Kopano ke Matla! --  Participatory agitprop: the Rural Sanitation Play --  Simultaneous dramaturgy: the Agro-Action Play --  Forum Theatre: the Trade Union Play --  Participatory theatre/comgen theatre: the Alcoholism Play --  The Concept of Intervention --  The intervention-participation-conscientisation relationship --  Optimal intervention --  Conclusions --  The efficacy of theatre in development communication --  Problems of underdevelopment --  Assets and liabilities of different methods of theatre-for-development --  Appendix: The Plays --  Kopano ke Matla! --  Rural Sanitation Play --  Agro-Action Play --  Trade Union Play --  Alcoholism Play --  Bibliography --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1856492001 9781856492003 1856491994 9781856491990 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93018987 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Theater and society--Africa<br/>Community development--Africa<br/>Drama in education--Africa<br/>Theater--Political aspects--Africa<br/>Communication in rural development--Africa
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2969.  / M42 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.096