Robin Lake

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Robin Lake (19**-). Actor, teacher, director.

Biography

Training

Trained at UCT.

Career

He emigrated to Canada in his youth and lived and worked there and in the USA for many years before moving to London to take up a post as teacher/director at LAMDA. Senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town Drama Department since 1975.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Roles in The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1977), The Dresser (1980), Pray Don't, Sir George! (1983).

He has directed two Molière plays with student casts at the Little Theatre: That Scoundrel Scapin and The Would-Be Gentleman. In 1977 he diected The Misanthrope for CAPAB. He directed Line (1978), The People Never (1978), The Gin Game (1978), Separate Tables (1984) and co-directed The Dybbuk (1984).

Awards, etc

Sources

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

The Misanthrope programme notes, 1977.

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