Pioneer Theatre
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The Pioneer Theatre was a venue founded in Johannesburg by Leo Kerz in 193*. The theatre was used to stage a number of cutting edge European and American plays from the 1930s.
Stage productions done there include Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, (1938), Gas (1938), Miracle at Verdun (1939); Odets's Golden Boy (1940) and The Cradle Will Rock (1941)
Sources
Louise Hirschfield Collection, The Harvard Theatre Collection[1]
Colin Naylor, 1990. Contemporary designers, p. 294.
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