Diepkloof Hall

DIEPKLOOF HALL, Soweto. ****** A space used by a number of theatre and performance companies in the the days when black performers had no access to other theatre spaces. *** The premiére of Zakes Mda’s We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Dead End took place there in 1978. *** Diepkloof Hall: In Soweto. Des and Dawn Lindberg opened their production of the musical The Black Mikado here on 13 May 1976. **** (Tucker, 1997)

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