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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
[[The South African Theatre, Music and Dance]]  1(2), 1939-1940.
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FRANCE, Wesley. (19**-). Producer, lighting designer and company manager.

Biography

Training

Career

He was senior production manager for the Market Theatre in Johannesburg for eight years in the 1980s and has been company manager and lighting supervisor for many international tours. Since 1991 he has toured internationally with Handspring Puppet Company


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

For the Market Theatre he lit Sweeney Todd at the Laager, Forbidden Fruits, Groucho at Large, Stukkie Jols, The Duck Variations, Spooks, Gertrude Stein and a Companion, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. For Handspring Puppet Company he did Woyzeck on the Highveld, Faustus in Africa, The Chimp Project, Ubu and the Truth Commission, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, Zeno at 4am and Confessions. Also technical director for William Kentridge’s 2007 production of The Magic Flute with the Brussel’s Opera.

Awards, etc

Has been nominated numerous times for a Vita Award for Best Lighting Design.


Sources

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