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Revision as of 18:57, 26 April 2024
The Troupe Theatre Company was an experimental theatre-making company.
Not to be confused with the London based Troupe Theatre Company/Troupe Productions Ltd.[1]
Contents
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. Actors who worked with them also included Bryony Mortimer, 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
Productions of this company include The Threepenny Opera, Metamorphosis, Summit Conference, Agamemnon, Decadence, Fanshen, Guinea Fowl, Claw, Salomé, Guinea Fowl
Sources
Grahamstown Festival, 1984 programme, p 25.
https://www.troupetheatre.co.uk/
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