John Rogers

John Rogers (19**-). Actor, director.

Biography

Training

Trained at RADA.

Career

Worked with the National Theatre (1963), NAPAC (1965-1967) and PACT (from 1968). Since the 1990s he has been with Bateleur Films.

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

As actor

Performed in The Lion in Winter (1968), In the Bag (1968), Tinker's Curse (circa 1970), Misalliance (with PACT in 1978), The Passion of Dracula (for Toerien/Firth in 1979), Ross (with PACT in 1979), Bodies (at the Market Theatre in 1980), The Merchant of Venice (at the Market Theatre in 1980).

He also starred in the Leonard Schach production of Kennedy's Children at the Chelsea Theatre in 1975, in a revival of Journey's End in February 1977, Journey's End (1977), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1977), Relatively Speaking (1978), The Passion of Dracula (1979) and in Amadeus (1981).

As director

John directed a number of plays, including:

1976: Kennedy's Children (Theatre Workshop Company),

1976: Rattle of a Simple Man (Theatre Workshop Company),

1976: Candida (Theatre Workshop Company)

1976: Brer Rabbit (PACT Playwork)

1977: A Thousand Clowns (Theatre Workshop Company)

1977: A Christmas Carol (his own adaptation, PACT Playwork)

1978: One Season's King (Theatre Workshop Company)

1981: Ellen Terry the Harum-Scarum Girl (Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery)

1985: Beauty and the Beast (Roodepoort Civic Theatre)

He has been involved in the training of young black directors such as Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom for film and television since the 1990s.

Awards, etc

He was awarded an Artes in 1996 as Best Director in a television drama for Africa PI.

Sources

SACD 1975/76; 1979/80; 1980/81.

Tucker, 1997.

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

City Press, 27 August 1995.

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