Roundabout Theatre Company
Roundabout Theatre Company was a street theatre company founded in Cape Town and active in 1976-1980.
(Not to be confused with the Durban-based Theatre-in-Education company the Theatre Roundabout/Theatre Roundabout Roadshow Company or The Roundabout Theatre Company, a leading non-profit theatre company based in New York City founded in 1965 [1].)
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The company
In Fiona Ramsey's interview on Theatre Lives, she says that in 1976, Roundabout Theatre Company was being run by Henry Goodman, working with UCT Drama students, presenting street theatre. Before anyone had heard the term they took improvised plays into the workplace where audiences were invited to take part to solve problems (an early form of industrial theatre).
Productions
Productions staged by the company include:
1980: Savage Love
Sources
Tucker, 1997.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
https://www.silverbirchingtonplays.com/ourauthors
https://theatrelives.co.za/people/fiona-ramsay/#group-2
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