Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop can refer to a venue at the University of Natal as well as a theatre production organisation in Johannesburg.

Theatre Workshop, Durban

The Theatre Workshop, which consisted of converted lecture rooms in the University of Natal’s City Buildings, Warwick Avenue, was the Natal Theatre Workshop Company's first venue and was used to perform classical and modern works (including Athol Fugard’s The Blood Knot (1961).

For more information, see Natal Theatre Workshop Company.

Theatre Workshop, Johannesburg

This was a theatre production company run by Sybil Marks, specialising in work for teenagers.

Productions

Productions staged by Theatre Workshop include:

1969: The Water Babies

1978: The Sleeping Beauty, Heidi

Sources

McM

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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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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