Eoan Group
An opera company founded on the Cape Flats in 19** under guidance of Helen Southern Holt.* * In 1962*? They did Behind the Yellow Door by Flora Stohr. An indigenous play dealing with the lives of a coloured family set in Athlone, Cape Town. Directed by Robert Mohr and performed at the Little Theatre. It was subsequently staged at in Shreveport, Louisiana in the United States in 1966, again directed by Robert Mohr. The Eoan choir sang in the 1963/1964 JODS production of Show Boat (directed by Anthony Farmer) at the Alhambra Theatre, Cape Town, replacing the Capedium Choir of Johannesburg. * In 19** got their own theatre, the Joseph Stone Auditorium [*?].
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(See Tucker, 1997) .
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