Little Abbey Theatre
The Little Abbey Theatre was a performance venue in Commercial Road, Durban, formerly St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.
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History
The Durban Arts Initiative, a sub-group of the city council, rented the church and adjacent buildings and reconstructed the theatre.
Attached to the theatre was the Little Abbey Theatre Foundation, a tertiary theatre school which was connected to the professional theatre. Pamela Perry and Dr Sandra Herrington spearheaded the school and the theatre.
Many of the Durban acting fraternity who were involved in radio dramas performed at the Little Abbey, including Ingrid Mollison, Caroline Smart and Pamela Perry.
The venue closed in the mid/late 1980s.
Productons
Productions staged at the theatre include:
1987: Santa's Christmas Strike
Sources
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
https://www.fad.co.za/2018/10/18/theater-memories/
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