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Barney Simon

BARNEY SIMON  (1933 - )

 Nationality:    South African
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         Black Dog-Inj Mayama         Born in the RSA         Call Me Woman         Cincinatti         Cold Stone Jug         Dybbuk         Eden And Other Places         Hey Listen         Inyanga - about Women in Africa         Joburg, Sis!         Klaaglied vir Kous         Le Costume (the Coat)         Marico Moonshine and Manpower         Medea         Outers         People         People Too         Phiri         Score Me With Ages         Singing the Times         Six Characters In Search of an Author         Starbrites         Storytime         Suit, The         Woza Albert!         Written by Hand

Black Dog-Inj Mayama

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1984

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Born in the RSA

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1985

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1st Published:
in "Woza Africa!", Braziller, New York, 1986   -

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Call Me Woman

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1980

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Cincinatti

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1979

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1st Published:
Haum Fducational, Johannesburg, 1984   -

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Cold Stone Jug

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Original Playwright - Stephen Gray

1st Produced:
Cape Town    1980

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1st Published:
Human and Rousseau, Cape Town, 1982   -

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Adaptation

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Dybbuk

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Original Playwright - Shalom Ansky

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1986

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Adaptation

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Eden And Other Places

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1989

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Hey Listen

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1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1973

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Inyanga - about Women in Africa

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1989

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Joburg, Sis!

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includes Men Should Cry More Often, Miss South Africa, I Live in A Building, Cape Town is Fantastic, Our War

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1974

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1st Published:
Bataleur Press, Johannesburg, 1974   -

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Klaaglied vir Kous

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1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1986

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Le Costume (the Coat)

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In the dusty heat of a 1950s South African township, a young worker returns home to find his wife in bed with her lover. The lover escapes, leaving behind his suit. The only revenge the husband takes is to instruct his wife to treat the suit as an honoured guest. But how long can she endure this cruel and pitiless sentence? The production is performed in French with English surtitles.

Notes:
adapted by Mothobi Mutllostse And Barry Simon from story by Can Temba. French Adaption by Marie-Helene Estienne.

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Teatre des Bouffes du Nord as part of LOFT season

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Adaptation

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Marico Moonshine and Manpower

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1981

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Medea

Synopsis:
classic tale of Medea and her love for Jason

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Original Playwright - Franz Grillparzer

1st Produced:
Cape Town    1978

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Outers

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1985

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People

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1973

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People Too

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1974

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Phiri

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1972

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Score Me With Ages

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written by Barney Simon And Lionel Newton

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1989

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Singing the Times

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written with others

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1992

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Six Characters In Search of an Author

Synopsis:
the illusion of a rehearsal for a play is interrupted by the arrival of six people in search of an author

Notes:
Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1973

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Starbrites

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Market Theatre

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Storytime

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includes the Yellow Star

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1975

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1st Published:
the Yellow Star published Quarry, Johannesburg, 1976   -

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Suit, The

Synopsis:
In the dusty heat of a 1950s South African township, a young worker returns home to find his wife in bed with her lover. the lover escapes, leaving behind his suit. the only revenge the husband takes is to instruct his wife to treat the suit as an honoured guest. But how long can she endure this cruel and pitiless sentence.

Notes:
A musical play by Peter Brook And Marie-Helene Estienne, After the original story by Can themba, Adapted for the stage by Barney Simon And Mothobi Mutloatse

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Organisations:
A CICT/ Theatre des Bouffes du Nord production

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Genre:
musical play

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Woza Albert!

Woza Albert!
At the height of apartheid the second coming of Jesus Christ takes place in South Africa

Notes:
written by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema And Barney Simon

1st Produced:
Johannesburg    1981

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Written by Hand

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written with others

1st Produced:
Boston, Masachusetts    1987

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