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Founded in 1974 by Barney Simon and Mannie Manim.
Their first production was
In 1975 they presented Selle Ou Storie by Pieter-Dirk Uys as their first Afrikaans play at the Chelsea Theatre in Johannesburg in 1975, with Christine Basson, Val de Klerk, Danny Keogh, and directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys The production, the first production of the conmtrovbersial work in the Transvaal, won a number of awards. it was eventually also banned, as had happened in the Cape.
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