Hofmeyr Hall
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Hofmeyr Halls in South Africa
A number of halls in the country bear the name Hofmeyr Hall or Hofmeyrsaal
Hofmeyr Hall, Stellenbosch
Hofmeyr Hall, 39, Church Street, Stellenbosch. To the older generation of Stellenboschers known as the CJV Saal Hall (Christelijke Jongelieden Vereniging - Young Christians' Association). The Church Council of the Moeder Kerk renamed the classicist hall, with its ionic columns and Greek pediment, after the man, whose Bible classes first led to the erection of the building (in 1900): N J Hofmeyer, one of the first two professors of the Stellenbosch seminary. Ex students of some 50 or 60 years ago remember the CVJ Hall primarily as a venue for well-attended meetings of the debating societies and mass meetings of the students.
Stage presentations done there include **
Hofmeyr Hall, Cape Town
Hofmeyr Hall
Also called The Hofmeyr Theatre [???]
Venue used by the Kaapstadse Afrikaanse Toneelvereniging (KAT) between 1940 and 1949. Later used by National Theatre Organisation (NTO) and the Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB) for their productions, including CAPAB's first productions of Becket (Anouilh) and Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) in 1963. **** Demolished in 19**) [JH]
Hofmeyr Theatre
Situated in the Groote Kerk building in Adderley Street, Cape Town. Ill equipped. The Brian Brooke Company occupied the theatre in 1949. He vacated it in 1955 and it became the full-time home to Leonard Schach’s Cockpit Players. Schach’s Cape Town company did The Chalk Garden at the Hofmeyr in 1959. Leonard Schach’s production of The Aspern Papers ran here in 1960. Michael Redgrave’s adaptation of this Henry James story saw the British actress Flora Robson in the lead opposite Canadian actor Robert Beatty. Leonard Schach presented Beyond the Fringe here in 1962, starring New Zealand-born Kerry Jordan and David Beattie. ****
Sources
Du Toit, 1988; Van Eeden in Hauptfleisch, 1985; Tucker, 1997 [JH. SH]
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