Eileen Thorns
Eileen Thorns (19**-) Director, Actress
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Became head of CAPAB Youth Drama in 1976.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Directed Three Cheers for President Charlie (1974), Story Theatre (1975), The Glass Menagerie (for CAPAB English Schools Programme, 1975), Husse met Lang Ore (1977), Time-Sneeze (1978), The Fantastic Fairground (1979). She co-directed Confetti (with Johan Esterhuizen, 1980).
Acted in The Cavern, Death of a Salesman, Richard III.
Awards, etc
Sources
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
Death of a Salesman theatre programme (CAPAB), 1979.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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