Loots, Lliane Jennifer.Mtshali, Nompumelelo.2020-11-162020-11-1620192019https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18853Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.The high rape statistics in South Africa has launched diverse research enquiries to interrogate extreme gender-based violence particularly child rape and corrective rape. The findings from broad research studies for example by Rachel Jewkes, Hetty Rose-Junius and Loveday Penn Kekana (2005) point to poverty as a cultural legacy of colonialism and power imbalances between genders as some of the most significant symptoms of gender-based violence. Lara Foot and Phyllis Klotz as South African playwrights, directors and activists have used real-life rape cases to create plays that heighten awareness on rape through horrific fictionalised stories. This half-dissertation applies a literary and performative analysis on these plays namely, Tshepang (2005) and Chapter 2 Section 9 (2016), as postcolonial feminist theatrical texts that engage critical scholarly and performance discourse on gender-based violence in South Africa.enGender based violence.Interrogating the Representations.Extreme gender violence.Contemporary South African plays.Theatrical representations.Thesis