Tim Huisamen

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Tim Huisamen is an academic

Biography

He studied at the University of Cape Town, and in 1976 joined the department of Afrikaans en Neerlandistiek ("Afrikaans and Dutch studies") in the School of Languages at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.

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

A well respected literary critic and t5eacher, he has written numerous reviews of plays and performances over the years as well as buiographical publications on authors such as his long time colleague, André P. Brink.

As a student actor he appeared inter alia as a "Guard" in Robert Mohr's 1969 Hamlet, for the University of Cape Town Drama Department in the Little Theatre; as messenger in the Afrikaans translation of CAPAB's production of Richard III in the Hofmeyr Theatre in Cape Town (opening on 26 August 1969);


He has been the Chair of the Rhodes University's Theatre Management Committee

Sources

www.litnet.co.za

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