Troupe Theatre Company
The Troupe Theatre Company was an experimental theatre-making company.
Not to be confused with the London based Troupe Productions Ltd.
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The company
Founded in Cape Town by Fiona Ramsay, Richard E. Grant, Fred Abrahamse, Sean Taylor, Neil McCarthy, Sean O'Brien and Henry Goodman in 1979. They were initially drawn together by a common interest in communal working methods and a desire to do a type of theatre that deviated from the traditional commercial fare. They had no funding or administration of their own, being purely a performance group and dependent on sponsoring managements such as the People's Space.
Productions
They brought their production of the Brecht-Weill The Threepenny Opera starring Sean Taylor to the Market Theatre in 1981. Productions of this company include The Threepenny Opera, Metamorphosis, Summit Conference, Agamemnon, Decadence, Fanshen, Guinea Fowl and Claw.
Sources
Grahamstown Festival, 1984 programme, p 25.
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