Renée Sigel

Renée Sigel (1960-) Choreographer, director, poet.

Biography

She worked as a fine art columnist for a major daily South African newspaper and as an arts and theatre editor for a lifestyle magazine before political pressure forced her to leave the country in 1994.

In 2010, Renée Sigel was living in Italy.

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

She directed Max and Moritz (1985). The play went on tour in Zulu.

She was assistant choreographer on Oh, What a Lovely War! (1993).

Two of her theatre pieces were published by Trinket Productions before being banned during the 1980s in South Africa during the national state of emergency.

She wrote the libretto for Of Love and Remembrance Sonnet Cycle (a work for Piano & Mezzo-Soprano) which was first performed at the Linden Auditorium in 1984.

Her theatre piece Not the Graceland, a 'Reading Cabaret of Banned Writing' presented at the Black Box Theatre was closed down within the first week of opening in 1985.

Sources

Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

http://conversationswithwriters.blogspot.com/2011/07/interview-renee-sigel.html

https://incertaesedes.wordpress.com/portfolio-1983-2025/