Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life

Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life is a workshopped play by Barney Simon and Cast.

(Also found as Cincinatti. Scenes from City Life.)

The original text

A workshopped play about the closing of a non-racial night-club in Johannesburg and the cross-section of South Africans who all went there and are now harbourless. The first of a series of such works to be undertaken by Simon over the next two decades. First performed at the Upstairs at the Market on 5 March 1979 and first published in Hauptfleisch and Steadman: South African Theatre: Four Plays and an Introduction by HAUM Educational in 1984.

Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life workshopped by the cast. Barney Simon directed this show starring Vanessa Cooke, Marcel van Heerden, Danny Keogh, Lesley Nott, Barrie Shah, Thoko Ntshinga, Bo Petersen, Sam Williams and Robin Smith for The Company at The Market Theatre, Upstairs at the Market, the Baxter and the Brooke Theatre in 1979.**

Cincinatti

       Aug 2015 – A play
       By Barney Simon and the original cast
       Dir.: Clive Mathibe 
       Mentor to Director Vanessa Cooke 
       Cast: Ameera Patel (as Sheila), Brendon Auret (as Hedley), Christien Le Roux 
                (as Candy), Asanda Chuma Sepotela as Sis Thembsie), Francois Jacobs 		      (as Pieter), Odelle De Wet (as Pat), Paka Zwedala (as Abraham), Robyn Olivia    
                Heaney (as Vicky), Theo Landey as Arthur) 

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