Annie Barnes

(19**-) Actress, children’s theatre author and practitioner. Since the early 1980s she has been writing and directing plays for young audiences. She started the Two Hoots Company in Cape Town with Lizz Mills in 19**. Moving to Johannesburg, she started the Out of the Box Company. Her work is characterised by audience participation. In Rainbow Land, an educational play about nature conservation, the ten to twelve year olds in the audience form an integral part of the action, representing the inhabitants of the endangered land. It is a technique also used in her other plays, e.g. The Jubba Jugga Junkyard Jolllies and Hey!Hooray!.