ABSTRACT

This article explores how whiteness is enacted and negotiated from the perspective of a conductor in a Playback Theatre performance (PT). The article addresses how PT provides a stage for exercising opportunities for doing white differently in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that Doing white differently takes place by recognising a distinction between the subjectivity of white individuals and the historic, colonial representations of whiteness in South Africa. Drawing on second-wave critical whiteness studies and agential realism, this article discusses the author’s attempt to engage in a diffractive moment related to racial identities during a performance for university students.

摘要

本文探讨了如何从表演剧院表演（PT）中的指挥角度制定和协商白度。本文探讨了PT如何为种族隔离后的南非提供机会，使人们有机会以不同的方式去做白人。它认为，通过承认白人个体的主观性与南非历史性的殖民主义白人代表之间的区别，做白人是不同的。本文利用第二波批判性白度研究和特有的现实主义，讨论了作者在大学生表演期间试图参与与种族认同相关的衍射时刻的尝试。