May 16, 202629 minS3
<p>In this second studio session, the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre's Resident Artist for 2026 Tholwana Dyosopu shares further insights into her process as a singer-songwriter, and in particular her engagement with Shakespeare...
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Shake the Sword!
Hosted by The Tsikinya-Chaka Centre · society · EN
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Produced by the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Shakespeare, transnationalism, multilingualism.
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Shake the Sword! is hosted by The Tsikinya-Chaka Centre. The show has published 10 episodes to date.
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Recent episodes include "In Studio with Tholwana Dyosopu - Part Two" (16 May 2026, 29 minutes), "In Studio with Tholwana Dyosopu - Part One" (19 March 2026, 27 minutes), and "David Schalkwyk: from Twaalfde Nag to Twelfth Night" (12 February 2026, 33 minutes).
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Shake the Sword! publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 10 episodes.
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Mar 19, 202627 minS3<p>Tholwana Dyosopu is a singer-songwriter who has applied her musical talents to creating new versions of a series of Shakespeare's sonnets. She is the Resident Artist for 2026 at the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre (TCC) at...
Feb 12, 202633 minS3<p>We kick off Season 3 with eminent South African Shakespearean David Schalkwyk. He talks to Chris Thurman about prison writing, Shakespeare on Robben Island, a new production of Twelfth Night at the Maynardville...
Jun 21, 202535 minS2<p>In this episode, doyenne of the South African stage Fiona Ramsay sits down with TCC Director Chris Thurman as she prepares to perform in Blonde Poison at the Drama Factory. They talk about the role of Stella in...
Episode #2
Zulu Shakespeares - Part Two
Feb 22, 202530 minS2<p>Picking up where we left off at the end of Part One, this episode explores recent and ongoing creative practice involving translations of Shakespeare's plays and poems into isiZulu. Listen to extracts of performances...
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Zulu Shakespeares - Part One
Jan 24, 202527 minS2<p>We're back ... welcome to Season 2 of Shake the Sword! This new season kicks off with a pair of episodes on Shakespeare translations into isiZulu, the most widely-spoken home language in South Africa. In part one, we...
Episode #4
Nigerian Shakespeares: Travelling tales
Feb 28, 202222 minS1<p>Part two of our mini-series exploring Shakespeare in/and/from Nigeria. Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, Chris Thurman, introduces the TCC's partnership with the Drama Factory in Somerset West. Then we learn...
- Feb 28, 202223 minS1
<p>Part one of another double-header, this time exploring Shakespeare in/and/from Nigeria. Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, Chris Thurman, talks to scholars, playwrights and translators who share insights into...
Episode #2
Kiswahili Shakespeares - Part Two
Oct 8, 202128 minS1<p>In our first two episodes, we learn about translations of Shakespeare's plays into Kiswahili - a language spoken by more than 100 million people across eastern, central and southern Africa. Part two explores this...
Episode #1
Kiswahili Shakespeares - Part One
Oct 1, 202129 minS1<p>In our first two episodes, we learn about translations of Shakespeare's plays into Kiswahili - a language spoken by more than 100 million people across eastern, central and southern Africa. Part one focuses on the...
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