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Junction Avenue Theatre Company

JUNCTION AVENUE THEATRE COMPANY

  (1976 - )
Nationality:    South African
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formed by a group ofwhite students at the University of Witwatersrand interested in creating historically informed plays abiut South African Society.

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below is a list of Junction Avenue Theatre Company's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

          Fantastical History of a Useless Man, The         Marabi         Randlords And Rotgut         Sophiatown         Tooth and Nail         Will Of A Rebel

Fantastical History of a Useless Man, The

Synopsis:
response to the Soweto uprisings of 1976 by comparing White, English speaking South African ideology to historical realities from 1652 to 1976.

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Wits University Press (31 Mar. 1995)   978-1868142644

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Marabi

Synopsis:
about urban culture and removals in the 1930s and 40s

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-    1982

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Randlords And Rotgut

Synopsis:
the workshop creation in the styleof a music hall entertainment about the mix of capital and boozein early johannesburg.

Notes:
to mark the first workshop on the history of the University of Witwatersrand

1st Produced:
Nunnery Theatre, Johannesburg    02 Feb 1978

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1st Published:
in "Theatre Two",Ad Donker, Johannesburg, SA (1981)   0-949937-80-1

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Sophiatown

Synopsis:
Sophiatown was the Chicago of South Africa, a vibrant community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and politicians, and gave urban African culture its rhythm and style. This play, based on the life history of Sophiatown

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The play won the AA Life Vita Award for Playwright of the Year 1985/86.

1st Produced:
Market Theatre, Johannesburg    Feb 1986

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1st Published:
Wits University Press (31 Mar. 1995)   978-1868142644

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Play/Drama

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Tooth and Nail

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Wits University Press (31 Mar. 1995)   978-1868142644

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Will Of A Rebel

Synopsis:
abouth the life of dissident Afrikanns poet Breyten Breytenbach

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