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The theatrical works

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−	Four of Magnet Theatre's productions have been based on literary works: Melville’s ''[[Moby Dick]]'' (1993), Dürenmatt’s ''[[The Visit]]'' (1994), Mia Couto’s ''[[Voices Made Night]]'' (2001/12/13) and Max Frisch’s ''[[The Fire Raisers]]'' (2004).	+	Four of Magnet Theatre's productions have been based on literary works: Melville’s ''[[Moby Dick]]'' (1993), Dürenmatt’s ''[[The Visit]]'' (1994 & 2018), Mia Couto’s ''[[Voices Made Night]]'' (2001/12/13) and Max Frisch’s ''[[The Fire Raisers]]'' (2004).

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	http://magnettheatre.co.za/aboutus		http://magnettheatre.co.za/aboutus
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		+	"Magnet Theatre, Cape Town", ''[[South African History Online]]'' ([[SAHO]])[https://www.google.com/search?q=the+visit+by+magnet+theatre+1994.&rlz=1C1GCEU_enZA853ZA853&oq=&aqs=chrome.0.69i59i450l8.3205678841j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]

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 	Under Mandla Mbothwe’s direction, this production was part of Magnet Theatre’s Community Groups Intervention. It was Mbothwe’s first major production for the company, weaving a lyrical story between places and spaces; between waking-time and sleeping-time.
-	Ingcwaba Lendoda Lise Cankwe Ndlela [The Grave of the Man Lies Next to the Road]
+	''[[Ingcwaba Lendoda Lise Cankwe Ndlela]]'' [The Grave of the Man Lies Next to the Road]
 A stirring, vibrant multi-media work around the African notion of home, associated with the loss of the umbilical cord, as well as graves, histories, clans, and ancestors. Ingcwaba lendoda explored the physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual dislocation of young black South Africans whose origins lie a long way down the N2 in the Eastern Cape. Directed by Mandla Mbothwe, with choreography by Xolani Rani and choral direction by Nolufefe Mtswabe, featuring Faniswa Yisa and trainees from the Magnet Theatre full-time training programme.

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 Yvette Hutchison. 2015. "Contemporary Collaborators II: Magnet Theatre" in Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer  (editors). 2015. ''The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
-Megan Lewis and Anton Krueger (eds.) 2016. ''Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space''. UNISA, University of South Africa Press.
+[[Megan Lewis]] and [[Anton Krueger]] (eds.) 2016. ''Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space''. Pretoria: Intellect Ltd
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 Yvette Hutchison. 2015. "Contemporary Collaborators II: Magnet Theatre" in Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer  (editors). 2015. ''The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
-[[ESAT Bibliography Lew-Lim|Lewis M. & Krueger]] 2016.
+Megan Lewis and Anton Krueger (eds.) 2016. ''Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space''. UNISA, University of South Africa Press.
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	Yvette Hutchison. 2015. "Contemporary Collaborators II: Magnet Theatre" in Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer (editors). 2015. ''The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.		Yvette Hutchison. 2015. "Contemporary Collaborators II: Magnet Theatre" in Martin Middeke and Peter Paul Schnierer (editors). 2015. ''The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre''. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
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	[[ESAT Bibliography Lew-Lim\|Lewis M. & Krueger]] 2016.		[[ESAT Bibliography Lew-Lim\|Lewis M. & Krueger]] 2016.

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−	Magnet Theatre was formed in 1987 by [[Mark Fleishman]] and [[Jennie Reznek]] to produce [[Jennie Reznek]]'s first one-person performance, ''[[Cheap Flights]]'' . It re-emerged in 1991 to produce ''[[The Show's Not Over Till The Fat Lady Sings]]'' in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Pietermaritzburg, Windhoek, London, Brighton, Manchester, Glastonbury, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Stockholm.	+	Magnet Theatre was formed in 1987 by [[Mark Fleishman]] and [[Jennie Reznek]] to produce [[Jennie Reznek]]'s first one-person performance, ''[[Cheap Flights]]'' . It re-emerged in 1991 to produce ''[[The Show's Not Over 'Till The Fat Lady Sings]]'' in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Pietermaritzburg, Windhoek, London, Brighton, Manchester, Glastonbury, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Stockholm.

	In 1994, after touring for two and a half years, they returned to South Africa with the following aims:		In 1994, after touring for two and a half years, they returned to South Africa with the following aims:

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 •	 Created a large-scale outdoor performance event, VLAM 1 (1999), to celebrate the dawn of the new millennium in collaboration with Jazzart and Southern Edge Arts of Western Australia;
 •	 Adapted the stories of the acclaimed Mozambican author, Mia Couto, for the stage as VOICES MADE NIGHT (2000/1 and 2007);
-•	 Collaborated with Theatre Spirale (Geneva) on a South African version of the Swiss play THE FIRE RAISERS by Max Frisch (2004), combining seven South African actors with actors from Mali, Indonesia and Switzerland;
+•	 Collaborated with Theatre Spirale (Geneva) on a South African version of the Swiss play ''[[The Fire Raisers]]'' by Max Frisch (2004), combining seven South African actors with actors from Mali, Indonesia and Switzerland;
 •	 Created ''[[Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking]]'' (2006)