In 1976 Simon and Mannie Manim opened The Market Theatre and his production of Weiss’s Marat/Sade (1976) opened the main theatre. Plays directed for The Space Theatre include Medea (1977), Call Me Woman and at People's Space Savage Love (1980).Īmong the work he did for The Company were Hey Listen! (1974), The Maids and Antigone (by Jean Anouilh) (In The Blue Fox, 1975).ĭuring this time he also did freelance advertising work for extra income. However, he did not enjoy working in the state funded system as his heart lay in non-racial theatre, therefore he and Mannie Manim set up The Company in 1974, The Market Theatre in 1976 (with Barney as Artistic Director) and the Market Theatre Laboratory.Ĭontribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performanceīesides his management and educational roles, Simon has written, workshopped/facilitated and directed an enormous number of plays, among them some of the most iconic South African plays of the 20th century.
(These included Büchner’s Woyzeck (1973). He returned to South Africa in 1970 on the death of his father, becoming involved with doing health education sketches in rural Transkei and KwaZulu (1973-4), while doing freelance writing and directing for the Space Theatre (e.g directing Medea, writing and directing Miss South Africa) and PACT, where he agreed to work on experimental projects in The Arena. Hello and Goodbye with Martin Sheen) and became associated editor of the New York Literary Review. In 1968-1970 he spent time in the USA, directing plays by Fugard. He also did Phiri (19*) and Edward Albee's The Death of Bessie Smith. Here he met Athol Fugard, helping him with The Blood Knot and directing Fugard in Krapp's Last Tape (Beckett) and the first production of Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye. Working as copywriter in the day, he helped at The Rehearsal Room at Dorkay House in the evenings. Inspired by working as a stage hand for Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, he returned in 1961 to join Union Artists, where he and Ian Bernhardt set up the Phoenix Players. Went to London in 1959 to study photography and film editing. He had begun writing stories by this time. 2 Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performanceīorn in Johannesburg, he began studying architecture at University of the Witwatersrand and later University of Natal, but dropped out before graduating.
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