Alex Sutherland

Senior Lecturer

Degree | Masters in Education, Rhodes University (awarded with distinction), 2005

  | Honours in Drama Studies (awarded cum laude), University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1995

biography

Alexandra Sutherland's teaching, research, and community engagement activities focus broadly on Applied Theatre and the meaning of performance with and for particular communities. Her practical, teaching and research interests include drama with and for youth at risk, the processes involved in teaching, learning and research in Drama Studies in a Southern African context, as well as African and South African theatre, post-colonial & post-modern theory and performance. She is the director of the Art of the Street project, a theatre project by and for street involved youth. She has directed a number of plays for both students and professional companies, including several commissions by South Africa’s National Arts Festival. Her applied theatre work has included theatre and science projects, theatre as a catalyst for heritage studies, and examining performative notions of gender in relation to HIV/AIDS education with young people. Her current practical and research focus involves the social and aesthetic meanings of performance for male prisoners in a South African prison.

email | a.sutherland@ru.ac.za

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