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| − | + | An independent theatre company founded in 1974 by writer/director [[Barney Simon]] and lighting designer and theatre manager [[Mannie Manim]] to do ''avant garde'' work. | |
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Revision as of 07:13, 2 October 2012
An independent theatre company founded in 1974 by writer/director Barney Simon and lighting designer and theatre manager Mannie Manim to do avant garde work.
Their first production was
In 1975 they presented Selle Ou Storie by Pieter-Dirk Uys as their first Afrikaans play at the Chelsea Theatre in Johannesburg in 1975, with Christine Basson, Val de Klerk, Danny Keogh, and directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys The production, the first production of the conmtrovbersial work in the Transvaal, won a number of awards. it was eventually also banned, as had happened in the Cape.
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See also the Market Theatre
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