Cellar Theatre
In theory of course Cellar Theatre refers to theatre performed in a cellar room or a wine cellar. But it is often also simply used as an evocative name. There are a number of variations of this name (and the Afrikaans Kellerteater or Kelderteater), used by various theatre companies in South Africa.
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The Cellar, Durban
The Cellar, Stellenbosch
Die Kelder, Stellenbosch
Die Keller, Stellenbosch
Die Kellerteater, Stellenbosch
The Cellar Theatre, Stellenbosch
A small experimental space built in a cellar in the H.B. Thom Theatre complex at the University of Stellenbosch It was a small and cramped 60 seater venue constructed under the rehearsal rooms and the stage of the H.B. Thom Theatre by Johann van Heerden and Emile Aucamp in the 1980s to house experimental student work unsuitable for the big stage. Hugely popular with staff, students and student audiences, and used mainly for practical examinations and the more experimental student work, such as cabarets, monologues, physical theatre productions, and so on.
Closed down for public performance after 2000 because of occasional flooding and fear for safety of audiences.
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