ISBN: 9781583228326

No one knows how many men and women who have become makers of a unique black theatre and a unique non-racial theatre in South Africa known all over the world come from [Barney Simon'… More...

No one knows how many men and women who have become makers of a unique black theatre and a unique non-racial theatre in South Africa known all over the world come from [Barney Simon''s] vision and patient energy as director/writer.-Nadine Gordimer Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and told in the letters home of a young theater director to a friend who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South Africa''s national treasures, cofounder of the Market Theatre, director of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and mentor to a generation of South African actors, as he begins his artistic journey wrestling with the angels. Barney Simon (19321995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. The Market Theatre challenged the apartheid regime, armed with little more than the conviction that culture can changesociety, and became recognized as one of the most influential and distinguished theaters in South Africa and the world. Barney Simon, Books, Biography and Memoir, A Singing in Every Moment and Inch Of Me: The Letters Of Barney Simon to Lionel Abel Books>Biography and Memoir <