Simon, Barney

Simon, Barney
▪ 1996

      South African theatre director (b. April 13, 1932, Johannesburg, South Africa—d. June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a longtime force behind the growth of indigenous South African black drama and served as the artistic director of the nonracial Market Theatre in Johannesburg from its founding in 1976 until his death. Simon, the son of working-class Lithuanian immigrants, became an opponent of racial inequality at an early age. He discovered a love of theatre while working under director Joan Littlewood in London in the 1950s. After returning to Johannesburg, he supported himself by working as an advertising copywriter while he produced and directed plays, notably Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot (1961). Simon spent a year (1969-70) in the U.S., where he introduced South African plays to a wider audience and edited the journal New American Review. In 1976 Simon and Mannie Manim opened the Market Theatre in a converted fruit market. There he nurtured dramatists such as Fugard, Percy Mtwa, and Mbongeni Ngema—in spite of recurring financial difficulties and the constant threat of arrest for staging controversial contemporary plays performed by multiracial casts in front of multiracial audiences. Simon's own published works include the play Born in the R.S.A.

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