How Many Theatres Are In South Africa

What is a Theatre?

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. 

How Many Theatres Are In South Africa

South Africa has a prolific theatre scene, with more than 100 active spaces around the country offering everything from indigenous drama, music, dance, cabaret, and satire to West End and Broadway hits, classical opera, and ballet.

What was the first theatre in South Africa?

The African Theatre (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Schouwburg) was a theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. It was the first stone theater in the European style in South Africa and one of the first in the Southern Hemisphere. It was also known by other names, such as the Komediehuis, The Theatre, etc.

How did South African theatre start?

The formal South African theatre tradition dates as far back as the 1830s when Andrew Geddes Bains’s Kaatje Kekkelbek or Life among the Hottentots was performed in 1838 by the Grahamstown Amateur Company.1

What are the different types of theatre in South Africa?

South African theatergoers can choose between cultural drama, cabarets, dance, music, classical ballet, opera, and much, much more!

What defines South African theatre?

South African theatre is an enthralling, interactive experience – between actors and audience, plots and understanding, stimulus and response. South African plays will make you laugh or sob, gasp or hold your breath.