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 A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by [[Dan Twala]], [[Guy Routh]], and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was [[Eugene O'Neill]]’s ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'', with [[Dan Twala]] as Yank, directed by [[André van Gyseghem]]. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]] in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand [[Great Hall]] in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a '''BPT Drama Festival''' at the BMSC, and in 1941 they organised another festival which they called '''African National Theatre (ANT)''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5. According to Tucker, 1997, the '''Bantu People’s Theatre'''  transformed into an organisation called the [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940.
 == BPT Drama Festival, 1940 ==
 A one-off festival event in 1940, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' group at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]], the festival had [[Eugene O'Neill]]’s play ''[[The Dreamy Kid]]'', plus two new locally written plays by [[Guy Routh]]: ''[[The Word and the Act]]'' and ''[[Patriot’s Pie]]''.
 == The African National Theatre (ANT) festival, 1940 ==
 According to Kruger (1999) this was a one-off event in 1941, ''hosted'' by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. The programme included [[Gaur Radebe]]’s ''[[The Rude Criminal]]'' and [[I. Pinchuk]]’s ''[[Tau]]'', performed largely in Sesotho and starring [[Dan Twala]]. However, according to  Tucker, 1997, this was an organisation not a festival. See also  [[African National Theatre (ANT)]]

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−	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by [[Dan Twala]], [[Guy Routh]], and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was ~~O’Neill’s~~ ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'', with [[Dan Twala]] as Yank, directed by [[André van Gyseghem]]. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]] in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand [[Great Hall]] in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a '''BPT Drama Festival''' at the BMSC, and in 1941 they organised another festival which they called '''African National Theatre (ANT)''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5. According to Tucker, 1997, the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' transformed into an organisation called the [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940.	+	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by [[Dan Twala]], [[Guy Routh]], and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was [[Eugene O'Neill]]’s ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'', with [[Dan Twala]] as Yank, directed by [[André van Gyseghem]]. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]] in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand [[Great Hall]] in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a '''BPT Drama Festival''' at the BMSC, and in 1941 they organised another festival which they called '''African National Theatre (ANT)''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5. According to Tucker, 1997, the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' transformed into an organisation called the [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940.

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−	A one-off festival event in 1940, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' group at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]], the festival had Eugene ~~O’Neill’s~~ play ''[[The Dreamy Kid]]'', plus two new locally written plays by [[Guy Routh]]: ''[[The Word and the Act]]'' and ''[[Patriot’s Pie]]''.	+	A one-off festival event in 1940, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' group at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]], the festival had [[Eugene O'Neill]]’s play ''[[The Dreamy Kid]]'', plus two new locally written plays by [[Guy Routh]]: ''[[The Word and the Act]]'' and ''[[Patriot’s Pie]]''.

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-== African National Theatre (ANT), 1940 ==
+== The African National Theatre (ANT) festival, 1940 ==
-A one-off event in 1941, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. The programme included [[Gaur Radebe]]’s ''[[The Rude Criminal]]'' and [[I. Pinchuk]]’s ''[[Tau]]'', performed largely in Sesotho and starring [[Dan Twala]]. (According to Tucker, 1997, this was an organisation not a festival.)
+According to Kruger (1999) this was a one-off event in 1941, ''hosted'' by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. The programme included [[Gaur Radebe]]’s ''[[The Rude Criminal]]'' and [[I. Pinchuk]]’s ''[[Tau]]'', performed largely in Sesotho and starring [[Dan Twala]]. However, according to  Tucker, 1997, this was an organisation not a festival. See also  [[African National Theatre (ANT)]]

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-== Bantu People's Theatre (BPT) ==
+A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by [[Dan Twala]], [[Guy Routh]], and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'', with [[Dan Twala]] as Yank, directed by [[André van Gyseghem]]. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]] in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand [[Great Hall]] in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a '''BPT Drama Festival''' at the BMSC, and in 1941 they organised another festival which they called '''African National Theatre (ANT)''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5. According to Tucker, 1997, the '''Bantu People’s Theatre'''  transformed into an organisation called the [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940.
-== BPT Drama Festival ==
+== BPT Drama Festival, 1940 ==
-A one-off event in 19**, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' group at the BMSC, the festival had Eugene O’Neill’s play ''[[The Dreamy Kid]]'', plus two new locally written plays by [[Guy Routh]]: ''[[The Word and the Act]]'' and ''[[Patriot’s Pie]]''.
+A one-off event in 1941, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' at the [[Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg]]. The programme included [[Gaur Radebe]]’s ''[[The Rude Criminal]]'' and [[I. Pinchuk]]’s ''[[Tau]]'', performed largely in Sesotho and starring [[Dan Twala]]. (According to Tucker, 1997, this was an organisation not a festival.)

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 == Bantu People's Theatre (BPT) ==
-A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie.  In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)
+A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by [[Dan Twala]] and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'', with [[Dan Twala]] as Yank, directed by [[André van Gyseghem]]. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]] in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a '''BPT Drama Festival''' at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie.  In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)
 == BPT Drama Festival ==

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−	A one-off event, hosted by the Bantu People’s Theatre group at the BMSC, the festival had Eugene O’Neill’s play The Dreamy Kid, plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act ~~and Patriot’s Pie.~~	+	A one-off event in 19**, hosted by the '''Bantu People’s Theatre''' group at the BMSC, the festival had Eugene O’Neill’s play ''[[The Dreamy Kid]]'', plus two new locally written plays by [[Guy Routh]]: ''[[The Word and the Act]]'' and ''[[Patriot’s Pie]]''.
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	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie. In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)		A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie. In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)
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		+	== BPT Drama Festival ==
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		+	A one-off event, hosted by the Bantu People’s Theatre group at the BMSC, the festival had Eugene O’Neill’s play The Dreamy Kid, plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie.
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		+	Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues\|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
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		+	Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
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		+	Return to [[Main Page]]
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	See also the notion of [[People's theatre]]		See also the notion of [[People's theatre]]

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−	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie. In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)	+	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie. In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre (ANT)]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)

	See also the notion of [[People's theatre]]		See also the notion of [[People's theatre]]

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−	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie. In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into African National Theatre circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)	+	A Johannesburg-based theatre group founded in 1936 by Dan Twala and other members of the [[Bantu Dramatic Society]], for the “cultivation of Bantu Art and Drama” and to improve “the undiscovered talents of Bantu Art in Drama”. They modelled their constitution on that of the Unity Theatres in Britain. Their first production was O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, with Dan Twala as Yank, directed by André van Gyseghem. It was performed at the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre (BMSC)]]in December 1936 and at the University of the Witwatersrand Great Hall in June 1937. In 1940 the company seemed to surface again, when their work became more explicitly socialist in intention, targeting urbanized and urbanizing workers and intellectuals. They hosted a BPT Drama Festival at the BMSC, performing another O’Neill play (The Dreamy Kid), plus two new locally written plays by Guy Routh: The Word and the Act and Patriot’s Pie. In 1941 they Organised another festival which they called African National Theatre (ANT) at the Ghandi Hall, Fordsburg. This time the programme included Gaur Radebe’s The Rude Criminal and I. Pinchuk’s Tau, performed largely in Sesotho and starring Dan Twala. (Couzens, 1985; Kruger, 51ff, 74-5,) Bantu People’s Theatre: Guy Routh, a trade unionist was one of the people responsible for the formation of the Bantu People’s Theatre. Transformed into [[African National Theatre]] circa 1940. Performed Patriot’s Pie by Guy Routh circa 1940. *** (Tucker, 1997)

	See also the notion of [[People's theatre]]		See also the notion of [[People's theatre]]