Obituary
Brian Astbury: Driving force behind The Space theatre
He defied apartheid to the extent of hiring security policemen as stage hands
22 March 2020 - 00:00
Brian Astbury, who has died in London at the age of 78, co-founded SA's first nonracial theatre, The Space, in Cape Town at the height of apartheid, with playwright Athol Fugard and Astbury's actress wife Yvonne Bryceland.
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