Birrie le Roux

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LE ROUX, Birrie. (19*-) Set and costume designer. Studied at the University of Pretoria, then joined PACT. In addition worked for CAPAB and The Space Theatre over the years, and did other freelance work, i.a. for Marthinus Basson. Her stage work includes ***, costumes for Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, The Eternal Dance, The Final Sting of the Dying Wasp, Play it again, Sam at The Space in the 1970s, ** designs for The Merchant of Venice (Maynardville, 19** - Vita Award for best design, The Road to Mecca (Market Theatre 198*?/CAPAB , 19**?? – Vita Award for best design), O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night (CAPAB, 1989?*), Reza de Wet's Mis (CAPAB, 1993), Ibsen's Spoke (CAPAB, 1990), Nag, Moeder van die Dag (CAPAB, 1991), Merry Wives of Windsor (??* 199*), [[Die Skewe Sirke]l] (??*, 199*), Twaalfde Nag (Oude Libertas Theatre and Baxter Theatre, 2005), Begeerte (Eugene O’Neill’s Desire under the Elms, Baxter Theatre and KKNK 2006), . Won the Vita Award for best design twice. Also worked as designer on prominent films such as Fiela se Kind (198*), Paljas (199*), Meluda (200*) and The Story of an African Farm (200*).


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