Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life
Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life is a workshopped play by Barney Simon and the original cast.
(Also found as Cincinatti. Scenes from City Life, or simply referred to as Cincinatti)
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A workshopped play about the closing of a non-racial night-club in Johannesburg and the cross-section of South Africans who all went there and are now harbourless. The first of a series of such works to be undertaken by Simon over the next two decades. First performed at the Upstairs at the Market on 5 March 1979.
The text first published in Hauptfleisch and Steadman: South African Theatre: Four Plays and an Introduction by HAUM Educational in 1984.
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Performance history in South Africa
1979: Performed by The Company at the Upstairs at the Market, opening on 5 March. Devised and directed by Barney Simon with Vanessa Cooke, Marcel van Heerden, Danny Keogh, Lesley Nott, Barrie Shah, Thoko Ntshinga, Bo Petersen, Sam Williams and Robin Smith. It went on to play at Main Theatre at the Market Theatre, the Baxter and the Brooke Theatre in the same year.
2015: Performed at the Market Theatre in August, directed by Clive Mathibe (mentored by Vanessa Cooke), with Ameera Patel (as "Sheila"), Brendon Auret (as "Hedley"), Christien le Roux (as "Candy"), Asanda Chuma Sepotela (as "Sis Thembsie"), Francois Jacobs (as "Pieter"), Odelle de Wet (as "Pat"), Paka Zwedala (as "Abraham"), Robyn Olivia Heaney (as "Vicky") and Theo Landey (as "Arthur").
Sources
Temple Hauptfleisch and Ian Steadman: South African Theatre: Four Plays and an Introduction by HAUM Educational in 1984.
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
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