Outer Space

A second venue for The Space in Cape Town, built on the ground floor of the Bloem Street building in 1974, and used by as a venue for new work and for films. It opened in 1974 with Pity about People by Pieter-Dirk Uys, and closed with Survival by Theatre Workshop ’71 in 1976, when The Space moved to the YMCA in Long Street, asking the audience to carry their chairs .

The Outer Space saw a great deal of new work by young writers in the three years of its existance, including Dance Is (directed by Patricia Whittock), Die Laaste Middagmaal, (by Wilma Stockenström), It’s my Weekend, Too by Sheila Roberts)**

Sources

Brian Astbury, 1979

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