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The king & I, Louis Burke, (Dir/choreographer)(Rogers & Hammersteins) Jean Dell, Ann Stradi, Edmund Rahme, Memory Jane, Ben Illeman, Martin Dunne, Justin Hambloch, John Mitchells’ orchestra, Bruno Santini’s designs. Stan Knight’s lighting.
 
The king & I, Louis Burke, (Dir/choreographer)(Rogers & Hammersteins) Jean Dell, Ann Stradi, Edmund Rahme, Memory Jane, Ben Illeman, Martin Dunne, Justin Hambloch, John Mitchells’ orchestra, Bruno Santini’s designs. Stan Knight’s lighting.
  
Lighting design for ''[[Gigi]]'' ([[PACT]], 1992)
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Lighting design for ''[[Gigi]]'' ([[PACT]], 1992), ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten]]'' (1992).
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==

Revision as of 13:15, 18 December 2015

KNIGHT, Stan. (19**-) Designer and stage manager.

Biography

Training

Career

He pursued a career in Computer Programming before turning to theatre. He started as stage manager for the impressario Ronnie Quibell, then became stage director for the Brickhill-Burke Company. He ran his own decor construction company and was head of PACT's workshops for two years in the early 1980s.

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

Set designs include: Popcorn (1999), Death of a Salesman (2001) at the Baxter Theatre, ** Fiddler on the Roof (2007), Soweto Story (Deon Opperman, 2007), * Lighting designs injclude: Wild Honey (1986), Snow White and the Seven Dofs (1999), Grimm Tales (2007), Together with Andrew Botha he converted the old B.G. Alexander Nurses Home hall into the Adcock-Ingram Auditorium for PACT circa 1987. ***

(lighting), Jean Dell, Joe Stewardson, Johannesburg Civic, The king & I, Louis Burke, (Dir/ choreographer)(Rogers & Hammersteins) Judy Page, Ann Stradi, Edmund Rahme, Memory Jane, Ben Illeman, Martin Dunne, Justin Hambloch, John Mitchells’s orchestra, Bruno Santini’s designs.

The king & I, Louis Burke, (Dir/choreographer)(Rogers & Hammersteins) Jean Dell, Ann Stradi, Edmund Rahme, Memory Jane, Ben Illeman, Martin Dunne, Justin Hambloch, John Mitchells’ orchestra, Bruno Santini’s designs. Stan Knight’s lighting.

Lighting design for Gigi (PACT, 1992), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1992).

Awards, etc

FNB Vita Regional Theatre Awards for Gauteng for best set, Popcorn and best lighting design in Sno' White and the Seven Dofs, 1999.

Sources

Wild Honey programma notes

Tucker, 1997

The Citizen, 24 August 1999.


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