Raimond Schoop
Raimond Schoop (19**-) was a set designer
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Biography
Born in Denmark, he completed an M.A. in Fine Arts at Heidelberg-München, he worked with several theatre organisations in Germany before coming to South Africa in 1961, where he joined NTO and PACT.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He was Executive Designer for PACT from its inception. Besides overseeing the design work of his staff on various projects, he personally designed the sets for Dear Antoine, The Real Inspector Hound, Die Hemelbed, Meneer Puntila en sy Kneg Matti, The Comedy of Errors, The Oresteia, You Never Can Tell, Tartuffe, Yerma, The Lion in Winter, Hadrian the Seventh, After Magritte, Rhinoceros, Die Brandstigters, Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het, Elektra.
Sources
Elektra theatre programme, 1965.
George Ballot scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the ESAT Archive, with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[1] and consulted 2024-1925).
Notes in PACT Children's Theatre programmes for 1968 (Jack and the Turtle-Doves and Professor Poffel en Professor Moffel).
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