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 ==Productions==
-s: CAPAB's first productions were ''[[Becket]]'' (Anouilh) and ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' (by [[Ibsen]], in [[Afrikaans]]) in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in November 1963.  CAPAB's first production of a South African play written in English was ''[[The Year of the Locust]]'' by [[James Ambrose Brown]] (1966).  Its first original [[Afrikaans]] play was
+s: CAPAB's first productions were ''[[Becket]]'' (Anouilh) and ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' (by [[Ibsen]], in [[Afrikaans]]) in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in November 1963.  CAPAB's first production of a South African play written in English was ''[[The Year of the Locust]]'' by [[James Ambrose Brown]] (1966).  Its first original [[Afrikaans]] play was ?
 : ''[[Portuguese Match]]'' , ''[[The Dock Brief]]'', ''[[The Best of Dorothy Parker]]'', ''[[Heartbreak House]]'', ''[[The Happy Journey]]'', ''[[The Garden at the Threshold]]'', ''[[All Roads Lead to Rome]]'', ''[[The Beaux Stratagem]]'', ''[[Winter Journey]]'' and ''[[The King's Mare]]''.

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 s: CAPAB's first productions were ''[[Becket]]'' (Anouilh) and ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' (by [[Ibsen]], in [[Afrikaans]]) in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in November 1963.  CAPAB's first production of a South African play written in English was ''[[The Year of the Locust]]'' by [[James Ambrose Brown]] (1966).  Its first original [[Afrikaans]] play was
 : ''[[Portuguese Match]]'' , ''[[The Dock Brief]]'', ''[[The Best of Dorothy Parker]]'', ''[[Heartbreak House]]'', ''[[The Happy Journey]]'', ''[[The Garden at the Threshold]]'', ''[[All Roads Lead to Rome]]'', ''[[The Beaux Stratagem]]'', ''[[Winter Journey]]'' and ''[[The King's Mare]]''.
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 : ''[[Antigone]]'', ''[[The School for Scandal]]'', ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead]]'', ''[[People are Living There]]'', ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', ''[[Wholly Matrimony]]'', ''[[The Sniper]]'',  ''[[The 65th Square]]'' and ''[[Boesman and Lena]]''.
 : ''[[Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow]]'', ''[[The Way of the World]]'', ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'', ''[[The Man of Destiny]]'', ''[[O'Flaherty V.C.]]'', ''[[Tango]]'', ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' and ''[[Episode on an Autumn Evening]]''.

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 s: [[Michael Drin]]'s ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1990).
 '''For more information, see [[Cape Performing Arts Board]]'''
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 [[CAPAB Drama]] was formed in Cape Town as one of the principal arts segments of the [[Cape Performing Arts Board]] ([[CAPAB]]).
 For a large part of its history the CAPAB Drama section had two sub-sections: the Afrikaans Company and the English Company.
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 The [[CAPAB]] Drama Companies ceased operations in May 1997, and dissolved in 1999 when the entity was renamed [[ArtsCape]].
-'''A Chronology of Productions'''
+==Productions==
 s: CAPAB's first productions were ''[[Becket]]'' (Anouilh) and ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' (by [[Ibsen]], in [[Afrikaans]]) in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in November 1963.  CAPAB's first production of a South African play written in English was ''[[The Year of the Locust]]'' by [[James Ambrose Brown]] (1966).  Its first original [[Afrikaans]] play was

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		+	[[CAPAB Drama]] was formed in Cape Town as one of the principal arts segments of the [[Cape Performing Arts Board]] ([[CAPAB]]).
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	For a large part of its history the CAPAB Drama section had two sub-sections: the Afrikaans Company and the English Company.		For a large part of its history the CAPAB Drama section had two sub-sections: the Afrikaans Company and the English Company.

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	1990s: [[Michael Drin]]'s ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1990).		1990s: [[Michael Drin]]'s ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1990).
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	+	For a large part of its history the CAPAB Drama section had two sub-sections: the Afrikaans Company and the English Company.

	+	The directors/managers of CAPAB Drama included [[Pieter Fourie]] (director of Afrikaans drama, 1967-?), [[Peter Curtis]] (director of English drama, 1967-1978), [[Johan Esterhuizen]] (1985-1989).
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	+	The [[CAPAB]] Drama Companies ceased operations in May 1997, and dissolved in 1999 when the entity was renamed [[ArtsCape]].
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	+	'''A Chronology of Productions'''
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	+	1960s: CAPAB's first productions were ''[[Becket]]'' (Anouilh) and ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' (by [[Ibsen]], in [[Afrikaans]]) in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in November 1963. CAPAB's first production of a South African play written in English was ''[[The Year of the Locust]]'' by [[James Ambrose Brown]] (1966). Its first original [[Afrikaans]] play was
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	+	1970s: With [[PACT]] and the [[Phoenix Players]], [[CAPAB]] staged [[Athol Fugard]]’s ''[[Boesman and Lena]]'' and ''[[People are Living There]]'' (both directed by Fugard and starring [[Yvonne Bryceland]] and [[Glynn Day]] at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in 1970.
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	+	1967: ''[[Portuguese Match]]'' , ''[[The Dock Brief]]'', ''[[The Best of Dorothy Parker]]'', ''[[Heartbreak House]]'', ''[[The Happy Journey]]'', ''[[The Garden at the Threshold]]'', ''[[All Roads Lead to Rome]]'', ''[[The Beaux Stratagem]]'', ''[[Winter Journey]]'' and ''[[The King's Mare]]''.
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	+	1968: ''[[Peter Pan]]'', ''[[The Seven Ages]]'', ''[[Candida]]'', ''[[The Lion in Winter]]'', ''[[The Chalk Garden]]'', ''[[Cape Charade]]'', ''[[Don't Let Summer Come]]'', ''[[Suite in Three Keys]]'', ''[[Fury]]'', ''[[Dangerous Corner]]'' and ''[[The Lesson]]''.
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	+	1969: ''[[Antigone]]'', ''[[The School for Scandal]]'', ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead]]'', ''[[People are Living There]]'', ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', ''[[Wholly Matrimony]]'', ''[[The Sniper]]'', ''[[The 65th Square]]'' and ''[[Boesman and Lena]]''.
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	+	1970: ''[[Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow]]'', ''[[The Way of the World]]'', ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'', ''[[The Man of Destiny]]'', ''[[O'Flaherty V.C.]]'', ''[[Tango]]'', ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' and ''[[Episode on an Autumn Evening]]''.
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	+	1971: ''[[Talk of the Devil]]'', ''[[Orestes]]'', ''[[Winners]]'', ''[[Enter a Free Man]]'', ''[[Dear Antoine]]'' (opening play at the [[Nico Malan Theatre]]), ''[[Hadrian VII]]'', ''[[Strindberg Without Tears]]'', ''[[Biography]]'', ''[[The Daughter-in-Law]]''.
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	+	1972: ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'', ''[[McCullough, or Travels with a Collapsible Woman]]'', ''[[The Real Inspector Hound]]'' and ''[[Police]]'' (double bill), ''[[Under Milk Wood]]'', ''[[Macbeth]]'', ''[[The Good and Faithful Servant]]'', ''[[The Stronger]]'' and ''[[Orison]]'' (double bill).
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	+	1973: ''[[The Friday Bench]]'', ''[[See How They Run]]'', ''[[Miss Julie]]'', ''[[The Collector]]'', ''[[Annie Get Your Gun]]'', ''[[A Sleep of Prisoners]]'', ''[[The Mandrake]]'', ''[[The School for Wives]]'' and ''[[Mother Courage and Her Children]]''
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	+	1974: ''[[London Assurance]]'', ''[[A Collier's Friday Night]]'', ''[[Lorenzo: A Biography of D.H.Lawrence]]'', ''[[The Game of Kings]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', ''[[Present Laughter]]'', ''[[A Tribute to Noel Coward]]'', ''[[King Stag]]'' and ''[[Three Cheers for President Charlie]]''.
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	+	1975: ''[[The Alchemist]]'', ''[[Story Theatre]]'', ''[[Rookery Nook]]'', ''[[Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr Kooning]]'', ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', ''[[A Doll’s House]]'', ''[[The First Night of Pygmalion]]'', ''[[Good Grief, a Griffin]]'', ''[[Pygmalion]]'', ''[[The Story of an African Farm]]'', ''[[You Never Can Tell]]''.
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	+	1976: ''[[Julius Caesar]]'' ([[CAPAB]] at [[Maynardville]]), ''[[Shrivings]]'', ''[[Mr. Rhodes and the Princess]]'', ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', ''[[Richard III]]'', ''[[Fury]]'', ''[[Out at Sea]]''.
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	+	1977: ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' ([[CAPAB]] at [[Maynardville]]), ''[[The Misanthrope]]'', ''[[Arms and the Man]]'', ''[[Roulette]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]''.
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	+	1978: ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' ([[CAPAB]] at [[Maynardville]]), ''[[Private Lives]]'', ''[[Time-Sneeze]]'', ''[[Tartuffe]]'', ''[[Hay Fever]]''.
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	+	1980s: [[Dalene Matthee]]’s ''[[Fiela se Kind]]'' starring [[Shaleen Surtie-Richards]] (1986); [[Basil Rubin]] in association with [[CAPAB]] staged [[William Luce]]’s ''[[Zelda]]'' at the [[Adcock-Ingram]] (August 1987). [[CAPAB]] with [[Volute Productions]] staged [[Robert Hewett]]’s ''[[Gulls]]'' which [[Keith Grenville]] directed (1987).
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	+	1990s: [[Michael Drin]]'s ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1990).

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