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[[Barney Simon Young Directors and Playwrights Festival]]'' was an initiative to develop the talent of young South African playwrights,
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The ''[[Barney Simon Young Directors and Playwrights Festival]]'' is the joint name for two initiatives by the [[Market Theatre]] to develop the talent of young South African directors and playwrights.
  
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Initiated by by [[Lara Foot-Newton]] and named in commemoration of director [[Barney Simon]],  the ''[[Barney Simon Young Directors' Festival]]'' was the first founded (in 1998), followed in 2000 by a ''[[Barney Simon Young Playwrights Festival]]''. They are often referred to jointly. 
  
The Young Writers' Festival was an initiative to develop the talent of young South African playwrights, inaugurated in 2000. The idea was born out of the Barney Simon Young Directors' Festival which has run at the Market Theatre since 1998.
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== Sources ==
  
See: Barney Simon Young Directors and Playwrights Festival
 
 
Founded by [[Lara Foot-Newton]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in 2000, in commemoration of director [[Barney Simon]].
 
 
In her time there she founded the [[Barney Simon Young Directors' Festival]] in 1998 and the [[Young Writers' Festival]] in 2000 -jointly referred to as the [[Barney Simon Young Directors and Playwrights Festival]].
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
''[[The Citizen]]'', 5 October 2000.
 
''[[The Citizen]]'', 5 October 2000.
  

Revision as of 05:38, 6 May 2022

The Barney Simon Young Directors and Playwrights Festival is the joint name for two initiatives by the Market Theatre to develop the talent of young South African directors and playwrights.

Initiated by by Lara Foot-Newton and named in commemoration of director Barney Simon, the Barney Simon Young Directors' Festival was the first founded (in 1998), followed in 2000 by a Barney Simon Young Playwrights Festival. They are often referred to jointly.

Sources

The Citizen, 5 October 2000.


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