Barney Simon - Revision history

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	1974: ''[[Antigone (by Sophocles)]]'' ([[The Company]])		1974: ''[[Antigone (by Sophocles)]]'' ([[The Company]])
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		+	1974: ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]'' ([[The Company]])

	1975: ''[[The Crucible]]'' ([[PACT]])		1975: ''[[The Crucible]]'' ([[PACT]])

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 ===As stage manager===
-He acted as assistant stage manager, together with [[Percy Tucker]] on [[James Ambrose Brown]]’s [[Governor of the Black Rock]] which was directed by [[Leon Gluckman]] for the [[East Rand Theatre Club]] in 1953.
+He acted as assistant stage manager, together with [[Percy Tucker]] on [[James Ambrose Brown]]’s ''[[Governor of the Black Rock]]'' which was directed by [[Leon Gluckman]] for the [[East Rand Theatre Club]] in 1953.
 ==As Playwright==

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 : ''[[Lysistrata]]'' ([[The Company]])
 :  ''[[The Crucible]]'' ([[PACT]])
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 : ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead]]'' ([[The Company]])
 : ''[[Call Me Woman]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 : ''[[On the fourth Day of Christmas]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[The Island]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 ''[[Woza Albert!]]'' 1983. ''[[Methuen]]''.
 Numerous entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue.

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 : ''[[Happy Days]]'' ([[Phoenix Players]])
 : ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]'' ([[Phoenix Players]])
 : ''[[Marat/Sade]]''
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 : ''[[Woyzeck]]'' ([[PACT]])
 : ''[[Hey Listen!]]'' ([[The Company]])
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 : ''[[Show Me Yours...]]'' ([[The Company]])
 :  ''[[Pleasure and Repentance]]'' ([[The Company]])
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 : ''[[Luv]]'' ([[The Company]] and [[The Academy]])
 : ''[[Call Me Woman]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 : ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' ([[Market Theatre]]/[[Baxter Theatre]])
 : ''[[Woza Albert]]'' (the [[Earth Players]] in association with [[The Company]])
 :  ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'' (with [[Janice Honeyman]], [[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[['night, Mother]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 : ''[[Starbrites]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[Singing the Times]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 : ''[[The Island]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
-Dates unknown: ''[[People Too]]''
+Dates unknown: ''[[People Too]]'', ''[[Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking]]''
 ===As stage manager===

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 : ''[[Antigone (by Jean Anouilh)]]'' ([[The Company]])
 :  ''[[Pleasure and Repentance]]'' ([[The Company]])
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 : ''[[Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act]]'' ([[The Company]])
 : ''[[Savage Love]]'' ([[People's Space]])
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 : ''[[The Island]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[The Dybbuk]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 : ''[[Eden and Other Places]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[Starbrites]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 : ''[[Death and the Maiden]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[East]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[The Suit]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[The Island]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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 * [[Stephen Gray]]'s ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (1980)
 * ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'' (with [[Janice Honeyman]], from the stories by [[Herman Charles Bosman]], 1981)
 * [[Can Themba]]'s ''[[The Suit]]'', adapted for the stage by [[Mothobi Mutloatse]] and dramatized and directed by Simon (1994).
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 * ''[[People]]'' (with the original cast, 1973)
 * ''[[Storytime]]'' (1974)
 * ''[[Vroue van Troje]]'' ([[The Company]], 1976)
 * ''[[Call Me Woman]]'' (with the original cast, 1979)
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 * ''[[Outers]]'' (with [[Nicky Rebelo]] and the cast, 1985)
 * ''[[Eden and Other Places]]'' (with the original cast, 1989)
 * ''[[Starbrites]]'' (with [[Handspring Puppet Company]], 1990)
 * ''[[Singing the Times]]'' (with the original cast, 1992)
 * ''[[The Lion and the Lamb]]'' (with [[John Kani]], 1993)

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 * ''[[Phiri]]'' (a black musical version of ''[[Volpone]]'', 1972)
 * ''[[Hey, Listen...]]'' (1974)
 '''Adaptations''':

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 In 1968-1970 he spent time in the USA, directing plays by Fugard. (e.g. ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]'' with Martin Sheen) and became associated editor of the New York Literary Review.
-He returned to South Africa in 1970 on the death of his father, becoming involved with doing health education sketches in rural Transkei and KwaZulu (1973-4), while doing freelance writing and directing for the  [[Space Theatre]] (e.g directing ''[[Medea]]'', writing and directing ''[[Miss South Africa]]'') and  [[PACT]], where he agreed to work on experimental projects in [[The Arena]]. (These included Büchner’s ''[[Woyzeck]]'' (1973).  However, he did not enjoy working in the state funded system as his heart lay in non-racial theatre, therefore he and [[Mannie Manim]] set up [[The Company]] in 1974, The [[Market Theatre]] in 1976 (with Barney as Artistic Director) and the [[Market Theatre Laboratory]].
+He returned to South Africa in 1970 on the death of his father, becoming involved with doing health education sketches in rural Transkei and KwaZulu ([[Health Education Theatre Project]], 1973-4), while doing freelance writing and directing for the  [[Space Theatre]] (e.g directing ''[[Medea]]'', writing and directing ''[[Miss South Africa]]'') and  [[PACT]], where he agreed to work on experimental projects in [[The Arena]]. (These included Büchner’s ''[[Woyzeck]]'' (1973).  However, he did not enjoy working in the state funded system as his heart lay in non-racial theatre, therefore he and [[Mannie Manim]] set up [[The Company]] in 1974, The [[Market Theatre]] in 1976 (with Barney as Artistic Director) and the [[Market Theatre Laboratory]].
 Barney died in June 1995.

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	[[Upstairs at the Market]] was re-named [[The Barney Simon Theatre]] in his honour.		[[Upstairs at the Market]] was re-named [[The Barney Simon Theatre]] in his honour.
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		+	Initiated by by [[Lara Foot-Newton]] and named in commemoration of director [[Barney Simon]], the ''[[Barney Simon Young Directors' Festival]]'' was the first founded (in 1998), followed in 2000 by a ''[[Barney Simon Young Playwrights Festival]]''. They are often referred to jointly.

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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 [[Phoenix Players]] was founded in 1965 at [[Dorkay House]] as an offshoot of [[Union Artists]] by [[Ian Bernhardt]] of [[Union Artists]] and director [[Barney Simon]] to produce [[Athol Fugard]]’s ''[[Hello and Goodbye]]''.
-For more information, see [[Phoenix Players]]
+'''For more information, see [[Phoenix Players]].'''
 ===[[The Company]]===