Theatre Workshop '71

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Also referred to simply as Workshop ’71, Theatre Workshop '71 was founded in 1971 by Witwatersrand University lecturer Robert Kavanagh as a training workshop and gradually it evolved into a professional company. They sought to undertake experimental political theatre aimed t changing South African society. Among their more significant productions were Uhlanga (The Reed - 1975) by James Mthoba, Survival (1976), their last show before they took it to the USA and remained in exile.

The history of the company is documented in Kavanagh’s doctoral thesis, published as Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa.

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