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The Artscape Theatre Centre opened on 19 May 1971 in the Foreshore district of central Cape Town under its original Nico Malan Theatre Centre name, on reclaimed land between Table Bay and the central business district that had been added to the city through the wider 1940s harbour expansion programme. The complex was renamed Artscape in March 2001 as part of the broader post-apartheid renaming of public institutions in the western Cape, and covers roughly 14,000 square metres across three princi...

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