Space Theatre (Cape Town)
The Space Theatre (also called the Space, Die Ruimte in Afrikaans, The Peoples' Space and reincarnated as the New Space Theatre in 2008) was a fringe theatre in Cape Town, South Africa which was active in the 1970s. It re-opened in late 2008.
History
The original Space was founded in Cape Town in May 1972 by theatre photographer Brian Astbury and his actress wife Yvonne Bryceland[1] and relocated in 1976 to the YMCA building 44 Long Street. The Space established itself as a defiantly non-racial venue in a racially divided country. Taken over by Moyra Fine and Rob Amato after Astbury and Bryceland left, it survived as The People's Space for some two years before succumbing to overwhelming financial pressures.[2]
Productions
The first pioneering
It became the home of
New Space Theatre
In 2008, 36 years after the Space was initially founded, with the encouragement of its founding members and in line with
Notes
- ^ "Arts and culture: The 1970s", SouthAfrica.info
- ^ the backpack Archived September 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Sassy Supports: Leslee Udwin, producer of documentary 'India's Daughter'". Sassy Hong Kong. April 26, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ New Space Theatre
- ^ Ruth Prowse School of Fine Art
External links
- The Space — Theatre of Survival documentary