Youth Theatre

As a theatre space

The Youth Theatre was the fourth venue which opened at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre on 4 November 1992 with a production called Pure as the Driven Slush. Leonard Schach’s Baxter Theatre production of Beecham was staged here in 1993. Pieter Toerien brought James Sherman’s Beau Jest here in 1993. Tennesse Williams’ The Glass Menagerie was staged here in 1994. Bryan Schimmel and Ian von Memerty’s A Handful of Keys was staged here in 1994.

As a theatre company

There was a company known as Johannesburg Youth Theatre, in Parktown, Johannesburg. Founded and run by Joyce Levinsohn.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

For more information

See also Youth theatre, Children's Theatre Incorporated and Johannesburg Civic Theatre,

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