Department of Arts and Culture

Department of Arts and Culture

Department of Arts and Culture Drama Group

Founded in 1971 in response to a recommendation by the Theatre Committee of the Council for Culture, Sport and Recreation of the Ministry of Coloured Affairs, that prescribed literary works be dramatised and that the theatre arts be developed and promoted in Coloured Schools. In the initial period (1969-1970) the productions were done by the Performing Arts Councils, but in 1971 the Department formed its own theatre company under the leadership of Limpie Basson. *** In 1981 the onus of the work shifted to local theatre Organisations in the provinces, e.g. the Eersterus Performing Arts Council (EPAC) in the Transvaal, Free State and Kimberley region, Youth Reach in the Cape and the Durban Theatre Workshop Company in Natal.

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