Market Theatre - Revision history

Darryl: /* The Main Theatre/The John Kani Theatre */

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The Main Theatre/The John Kani Theatre

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Sources

Darryl: /* The Theatre Upstairs/Upstairs at the Market/The Barney Simon Theatre */

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The Theatre Upstairs/Upstairs at the Market/The Barney Simon Theatre

Satj: /* Sources */

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Sources

Satj: /* The venue */

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The venue

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Sources

Satj at 06:58, 13 May 2026

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Satj at 06:57, 13 May 2026

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Satj: /* The Market Community Theatre (2023-) */

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The Market Community Theatre (2023-)

Satj: /* The Market Theatre (1969-) */

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The Market Theatre (1969-)

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 : [[Barney Simon]]’s production of Albee’s ''[[The Death of Bessie Smith]]'' starring [[Janet Suzman]], [[John Kani]] and [[Winston Ntshona]]; [[Mannie Manim]] staged Larry Gelbart’s ''[[Sly Fox]]'' for [[The Company]], directed by [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]] and starred [[Patrick Mynhardt]], [[Graham Armitage]] and [[Peter J. Elliott]]; Ira Levin’s ''[[Veronica's Room]]'' was staged by [[The Company]]; [[Janice Honeyman]] staged the pop-musical ''[[Holy Moses and All That Jazz]]''; [[Barney Simon]] directed [[Vivian Solomons]] and [[Wilma Stockenström]] in [[Fugard]]’s ''[[Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act]]''; [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]’ ''[[Die Van Aardes van Grootoor]]''; [[Barney Simon]] directed ''[[Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life]]'' starring [[Vanessa Cooke]], [[Marcel van Heerden]], [[Danny Keogh]], [[Lesley Nott]], [[Barrie Shah]], [[Thoko Ntshinga]], [[Bo Petersen]], [[Sam Williams]] and [[Robin Smith]] for [[The Company]]; [[The Company]] staged Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[How the Other Half Loves]]'' starring [[Helen Jessop]], [[Kenneth Baker]], [[Richard Haines]] and [[Yvonne Banning]], directed by [[Graham Armitage]]; ''[[Black Nativity]]'' directed by [[Pieter Scholtz]] and starring nineteen black artists as their Christmas production
-: [[Roy Sargeant]] directed Peter Nichols’ ''[[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]]'' for [[The Company]], starring [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Sandy Dacombe]]; [[Malcolm Purkey]] directed Tom Stoppard’s ''[[Jumpers]]'', starring [[Ron Smerczak]], [[Nicholas Ellenbogen]] and [[Michele Maxwell]]; Beckett’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', directed by [[Donald Howarth]] and starring [[John Kani]], [[Winston Ntshona]] and [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]; [[Janice Honeyman]]’s production of ''[[An Arabian Night]]''; [[Elsa Joubert]]’s ''[[Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena]]'', directed by [[Hilary Blecher]] for [[The Company]] with [[Nomsa Nene]]; Cape Town’s [[Roundabout Theatre Company]] production of Kafka’s ''[[Metamorphosis]]'', directed by [[Richard E. Grant]] and [[Mike O’Brien]] and starring [[Steven Berkoff]], [[Henry Goodman]], [[Fiona Ramsay]] and [[Ian Roberts]]
+: [[Roy Sargeant]] directed Peter Nichols’ ''[[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]]'' for [[The Company]], starring [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Sandy Dacombe]]; [[Malcolm Purkey]] directed Tom Stoppard’s ''[[Jumpers]]'', starring [[Ron Smerczak]], [[Nicholas Ellenbogen]] and [[Michele Maxwell]]; Beckett’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', directed by [[Donald Howarth]] and starring [[John Kani]], [[Winston Ntshona]] and [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]; [[Janice Honeyman]]’s production of ''[[An Arabian Night]]''; [[Elsa Joubert]]’s ''[[Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena]]'', directed by [[Hilary Blecher]] for [[The Company]] with [[Nomsa Nene]]; Cape Town’s [[Troupe Theatre Company]] production of Kafka’s ''[[Metamorphosis]]'', directed by [[Richard E. Grant]] and [[Mike O’Brien]] and starring [[Steven Berkoff]], [[Henry Goodman]], [[Fiona Ramsay]] and [[Ian Roberts]]
 : In collaboration with the Baxter, [[Stephen Gray]]’s ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'', directed by [[Barney Simon]]; Arthur Kopit's ''[[Wings]]'' starring [[Shelagh Holliday]]; Cape Town’s [[Troupe Theatre Company]] brought their production of the Brecht-Weill ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' starring [[Sean Taylor]]; [[Emlyn Williams]] brought his ''[[Charles Dickens]]'' production; ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain [[Herman Charles Bosman]] stories, directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]]; [[Janice Honeyman]] directed ''[[Ain’t We Got Fun]]''; [[Taubie Kushlick]] staged ''[[From Taubie with Love]]'' starring [[Judy Page]] and [[Marloe Scott-Wilson]]

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	[[Johann van Heerden]] (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]		[[Johann van Heerden]] (2008)][http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.sun.ac.za%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10019.1%2F1443%2Fvanheerden_theatre_2008.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=_egBU77CNYWJhQeE5oCADQ&usg=AFQjCNEWnD1BzeLnFmOV2tvyGLoMyNeT6Q&bvm=bv.61535280,d.Yms]
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		+	[[Walter Greyvenstein\|Greyvenstein, Walter]] 1988. ''The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa''. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 : [[Paul Slabolepszy]]’s ''[[Saturday Night at the Palace]]'' starring Slabolepszy, [[Bill Flynn]] and [[Fats Dibeko]], directed by [[Bobby Heaney]]; Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ''[[Talley's Folly]]'' starring [[Dorothy Ann Gould]] and [[Anthony Fridjhon]], directed by [[Bobby Heaney]]
-: [[Bobby Heaney]] directed Edna O’Brien’s ''[[Virginia]]'' starring [[Sandra Duncan]], [[Robert Whitehead]] and [[Yvonne Banning]] (February); [[Janice Honeyman]] directed [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Vanessa Cooke]] in ''[[This is for Keeps]]'' (August); ''[[Sweeney Todd]]'', adapted and directed by [[Robert Whitehead]] starring [[Richard Haines]] and [[Grethe Fox]] (August); [[Janice Honeyman]]’s production, ''[[Forbidden Fruits]]'', starring [[Vanessa Cooke]], [[Jeremy Crutchley]], [[Mike Huff]], [[Danny Keogh]], [[Amanda Strydom]] and [[Annelisa Weiland]]
+: [[Bobby Heaney]] directed Edna O’Brien’s ''[[Virginia]]'' starring [[Sandra Duncan]], [[Robert Whitehead]] and [[Yvonne Banning]] (February); [[Janice Honeyman]] directed [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Vanessa Cooke]] in ''[[This is for Keeps]]'' (August); ''[[Sweeney Todd]]'', adapted and directed by [[Robert Whitehead]] starring [[Richard Haines]] and [[Grethe Fox]] (August); [[Janice Honeyman]]’s production, ''[[Forbidden Fruits]]'', starring [[Vanessa Cooke]], [[Jeremy Crutchley]], [[Mike Huff]], [[Danny Keogh]], [[Amanda Strydom]] and [[Annelisa Weiland]]; ''[[Ms Puc-man's Problem]]'', devised and directed by [[Charlotte Ewins]], presented by the [[Little People's Theatre Company]].
 : [[The Company]] presented [[Barney Simon]]’s ''[[Black Dog Inj'emnyama]]'' before going to the Edinburgh Festival.

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	https://marketcommunitytheatre.co.za/		https://marketcommunitytheatre.co.za/
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		+	https://www.facebook.com/p/St-Pauls-Anglican-Church-Conville-George-100080224760556/

	=The [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg (1976-)=		=The [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg (1976-)=

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 ===St. Paul's Mission Church===
-The venue has a rich history, starting as St. Paul's Mission Church, an Anglican Church for George's [[Coloured]] community in 1855. However, after the church had to move to Conville in terms of the Group Areas Act, the venue was repurposed as a public space.
+The venue has a rich history, starting as St. Paul's Mission Church, an Anglican Church for George's [[Coloured]] community in 1855. However, after the church had to move to Conville in terms of the Group Areas Act, the venue was repurposed as a public space.[https://www.facebook.com/p/St-Pauls-Anglican-Church-Conville-George-100080224760556/]
 === The [[Market Theatre]] (1969-) ===

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	=The [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg (1976-)=		=The [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg (1976-)=

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 === The [[Market Community Theatre]]  (2023-) ===
-By 2004 it was being rented out as an all purpose  venue by the George Municipality. In June 2023, after a period of neglect,  it was resurrected and refurbished as the [[Market Community Theatre]] with the help of the [[National Arts Council]], to be used as a space where theatre could be used as a tool to build a greater sense of inclusion, justice and dignity in the local communities of George.
+By 2004 the venue was being rented out as an all purpose  venue by the George Municipality. In June 2023, after a period of neglect,  it was resurrected and refurbished as the [[Market Community Theatre]] with the help of the [[National Arts Council]], to be used as a space where theatre could be used as a tool to build a greater sense of inclusion, justice and dignity in the local communities of George.
 ==Sources==

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 From 1969 the building was thus utilised as a theatre by [[The Rederykers]], a local [[Afrikaans]] [[amateur]] theatre group. Referred to as the [[Market Theatre]], it was declared a provincial heritage site in 1979.
-In its active years, the theatre performed numerous plays, among which three by actor/director/author [[Wim Vorster]], who was involved with the group between 1979-1983.
+In its active years, the theatre performed numerous plays, among which:
 === The [[Market Community Theatre]]  (2023-) ===