Glass Theatre
The Glass Theatre was a theatre at the corner of Pepper and Hope streets, Cape Town, during early 1980s. Afrikaans name Glasteater and also known as The Glass House.
Founded and run by Chris Pretorius, Tjaart Potgieter, Laurens Cilliers and John Nankin, supported by Dieter Reible. Also involved were actors Megan Kruskal, Aletta Bezuidenhout, and others.
Productions
Plays produced included:
1981: Battle! (the opening production in September 1981)
1982: Robinson He Dance, The Seagull (dir Chris Pretorius, 1982),
1985: Tjaart Potgieter’s The Vegetable Woman or Meditations on Blake & The Minotaur’s Sister (an adaption of Euripides’s Hippolytus).
Dates unknown: Don Juan, or 'The Nightmare of Venus', Exit the King, Chris Pretorius’s production of The Duchess of Malfi (Sub-titled: The Eclipse of Reason),
Sources
Battle! theatre programme.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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