At Johannesburg's Market Theatre, once a hot-bed of daring new political drama, the biggest audiences are still for re-runs of struggle plays.

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Browse the farm-fresh produce and traditional crafts, and banter with the infamous salmon-tossing fishmongers, whose tourist-pleasing antics mix market trading with street theatre.

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Mr Graham said there were also plans to build a 100-seat cinema, modelled on Shrewsbury's Old Market Hall, and a 400-seat theatre.

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The two of them hatched get-rich-quick schemes Mr Poitier wanted to market an extract of Caribbean conch as an aphrodisiac and they shared theatre tickets: they could only afford a single ticket between them, so one would attend before the interval and one after, then each would fill the other in.

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Southwark Council has been particularly innovative, encouraging the construction of the new Globe theatre (see article), an extension of the Tate gallery at Bankside and a new market.

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