The Blue Fox
The The Blue Fox was a theatre venue in Johannesburg.
The venue
Set up in a converted restaurant in the Oxford Hotel, in the suburb of Rosebank, Johannesburg, in the early 1970s, it was used to perform local plays. Among the plays performed were:
Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar, starring Diane Wilson and Hugh Rouse (1972)
Louis Ife's Murder in Mind (1974)
Pieter-Dirk Uys’ Pity About People (1975).
The Company also staged some of their shoestring budgeted shows there in the period when they used it as a home for the company. (Plays performed included Hello and Goodbye by Athol Fugard, May Day Adventure by Janice Honeyman, Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare).
Sources
Listing of productions: Rapport, 5 May, 2074
Percy Tucker 1997. Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. . p.279.
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