It is a large, multipurpose theater center opened on August 1, 1985[1] as the home of the Regional Council of Sukovs (Orange Free State Performing Arts Society).
The theatre is named after Sand du Plessis, former administrator of Free State.
It opened with Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
A second venue in the theater is named after the South African actor André Huguenet, born in Bloemfontein.
It opened in 1985 with two productions in Afrikaans, Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca on August 28 and Don Juan onder die Boere by Bartho Smit on September 4.