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 ==Productions==
-The company has produced over 110 shows since 2000, including ''[[Under African Skies]]'' that has performed at over 80 theatres in Belgium, Holland, France and Denmark where it received rave reviews and achieved excellent ticket sales. Barnyard shows have also been staged internationally in the Middle and Far East, including multiple sell-out shows at The First Group Theatre at the five-star Madinat Jumeirah resort in Dubai. Our productions have also been seen in one of the entertainment hubs of South Africa, the renowned Sun City.
+The company has produced over 110 shows since 2000, including ''[[Under African Skies]]'' that has performed at over 80 theatres in Belgium, Holland, France and Denmark where it received rave reviews and achieved excellent ticket sales. Barnyard shows have also been staged internationally in the Middle and Far East, including multiple sell-out shows at The First Group Theatre at the five-star Madinat Jumeirah resort in Dubai. Their productions have also been seen in one of the entertainment hubs of South Africa, [[Sun City]].
 Productions over the years have included:

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 == Sources ==
 http://www.barnyardtheatre.co.za/
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 == The Barnyard Theatres franchise ==
-A series of of franchised theatres,  devised and built by [[Louis Möller]],  for mainly musical and dinner theatre. Starting with the original wooden '''Barnyard Theatre, Plettenberg Bay''' in 1996, he  franchised the idea and formed a company to build specialised dinner theatre venues across the country, in a variety of settings (schools, shopping malls, etc.), all called The [[Barnyard Theatre]]. There were such theatres in Durban, Hilton, Johannesburg, Somerset West, Franschoek (at one point there twelve of these independent commercial theatres situated around the country). A number of them were managed directly by [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]] (e.g. Cresta in Randburg, at Emperors Palace, East Rand ,  Gateway,  Durban, Park View Pretoria East, Sunninghill in Rivonia, Willowbridge near Cape Town).
+A series of of franchised theatres,  devised and built by [[Louis Möller]],  for mainly musical and dinner theatre. Starting with the original wooden '''Barnyard Theatre, Plettenberg Bay''' in 1996, he  franchised the idea and formed a company to build specialised dinner theatre venues across the country, in a variety of settings (schools, shopping malls, etc.), all called The [[Barnyard Theatre]]. There were such theatres in Durban, Hilton, Johannesburg, Somerset West, Franschoek (at one point there twelve of these independent commercial theatres situated around the country). A number of them were managed directly by [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]] (e.g. Cresta in Randburg, at Emperors Palace, East Rand, Gateway,  Durban, Park View Pretoria East, Sunninghill in Rivonia, Willowbridge near Cape Town).
 Asof 2019, there are five Barnyard Theatres across South Africa: three in Gauteng, one in Cape Town and one in Durban. The Barnyard Theatres include:

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 == Origins ==
 The concept of the [[Barnyard Theatres]] came about when the media couple [[Louis Möller]] (co-founder and producer of, ''[[Carte Blanche]]'') and his wife (freelance actress and TV presenter) [[Sybel Coetzee]] decided to opt out of the media world in 1989 to raise their family on a dairy farm just outside Plettenberg Bay. After a few years of farming they sought a way to combine their two interests, theatre and farming. The result was the birth of the original [[Barnyard Theatres|Barnyard Theatre]] in 1996, originally run as a venue for visiting artists. Louis had built a beautiful, rustic American-style wooden barn on the farm, which Sybel and Louis converted into a theatre with an old-world atmosphere, heavy wooden beams, a horseshoe gallery, big tables with welcoming lanterns and wood chips on the floor.
 A number of theatres were subsequently built for schools (e.g. Summerset College, near Somerset West and *** near Franschoek). Out of this developed the idea of a franchised series of theatres throughout the country, called The [[Barnyard Theatres]].

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 == The Barnyard Theatres franchise ==
-A series of of franchised theatres,  devised and built by [[Louis Möller]],  for mainly musical and dinner theatre. Starting with the original wooden '''Barnyard Theatre, Plettenberg Bay''' in 1996, he  franchised the idea and formed a company to build specialised dinner theatre venues across the country, in a variety of settings (schools, shopping malls, etc.), all called The [[Barnyard Theatre]]. There were such theatres in Durban, Hilton, Johannesburg, Somerset West, Franschoek. A number of them were managed directly by [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]] (e.g. Cresta in Randburg, at Emperors Palace, East Rand ,  Gateway,  Durban, Park View Pretoria East, Sunninghill in Rivonia, Willowbridge near Cape Town).
+A series of of franchised theatres,  devised and built by [[Louis Möller]],  for mainly musical and dinner theatre. Starting with the original wooden '''Barnyard Theatre, Plettenberg Bay''' in 1996, he  franchised the idea and formed a company to build specialised dinner theatre venues across the country, in a variety of settings (schools, shopping malls, etc.), all called The [[Barnyard Theatre]]. There were such theatres in Durban, Hilton, Johannesburg, Somerset West, Franschoek (at one point there twelve of these independent commercial theatres situated around the country). A number of them were managed directly by [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]] (e.g. Cresta in Randburg, at Emperors Palace, East Rand ,  Gateway,  Durban, Park View Pretoria East, Sunninghill in Rivonia, Willowbridge near Cape Town).
 Asof 2019, there are five Barnyard Theatres across South Africa: three in Gauteng, one in Cape Town and one in Durban. The Barnyard Theatres include:

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 Productions over the years have included:
-''[[Roll Over Beethoven]]''
+* ''[[Roll Over Beethoven]]''
-''[[Under African Skies]]'' (also known as ''[[Diamonds & Dust]]'')
+* ''[[Under African Skies]]'' (also known as ''[[Diamonds & Dust]]'')
 == Sources ==

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	In 2000 Louis Moller joined forces with the South African musician [[Duck Chowles]] to form the [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]]. Chowles (who produced the first Barnyard show in 2000) directs and produces all [[Barnyard Theatres]] productions, contributing his creativity to the production of over 700 shows.		In 2000 Louis Moller joined forces with the South African musician [[Duck Chowles]] to form the [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]]. Chowles (who produced the first Barnyard show in 2000) directs and produces all [[Barnyard Theatres]] productions, contributing his creativity to the production of over 700 shows.
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		+	==Productions==
		+	The company has produced over 110 shows since 2000, including ''[[Under African Skies]]'' that has performed at over 80 theatres in Belgium, Holland, France and Denmark where it received rave reviews and achieved excellent ticket sales. Barnyard shows have also been staged internationally in the Middle and Far East, including multiple sell-out shows at The First Group Theatre at the five-star Madinat Jumeirah resort in Dubai. Our productions have also been seen in one of the entertainment hubs of South Africa, the renowned Sun City.
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		+	Productions over the years have included:
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		+	''[[Roll Over Beethoven]]''
		+	''[[Under African Skies]]'' (also known as ''[[Diamonds & Dust]]'')

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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 ==The Barnyard Theatre Production Company==
-In 2000 Louis Moller joined forces with the South African musician [[Duck Chowles]] to form  the [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]]. Chowles directs and produces all [[Barnyard Theatres]] productions.
+In 2000 Louis Moller joined forces with the South African musician [[Duck Chowles]] to form  the [[Barnyard Theatre Production Company]]. Chowles (who produced the first Barnyard show in 2000) directs and produces all [[Barnyard Theatres]] productions, contributing his creativity to the production of over 700 shows.
 == Sources ==