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 He directed the [[Johannesburg Repertory Players]] in a production of ''[[The Tempest]]'' at at [[Reps Theatre]], 5 to 20 February 1954, with [[Ruth Hooper]] and [[Cecily Langston]] in the cast and [[Anthony Farmer]] as stage director.
-He directed the [[Children's Theatre]] open-air production of  ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' at the [[Zoo Lake]] in the summer of 1957  and at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre.
+He directed [[The Children's Theatre]] open-air production of  ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' at the [[Zoo Lake]] in the summer of 1957  and at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre.
 For their two-hundredth production, the [[Johannesburg Repertory Society]] presented ''[[The House by the Lake]]'', directed by [[Cecil Williams]] and starring the West End actress [[Sonia Dresdel]] in 1957.

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 He directed  ''[[Deep are the Roots]]'' (1951), ''[[Winterset]]'' (1953) and Ferenc Molnar’s ''[[Liliom]]'' in May 1953.
-He directed production by the Johannesburg Repertory Players, producer Cecil Williams, at the Reps Theatre, from 5 to 20 February 1954, with Ruth Hooper and Cecily Langston in the cast and Anthony Farmer as stage director, ''[[The Tempest]]'' for the [[Johannesburg Repertory Society]] in 1954.
+He directed the [[Johannesburg Repertory Players]] in a production of ''[[The Tempest]]'' at at [[Reps Theatre]], 5 to 20 February 1954, with [[Ruth Hooper]] and [[Cecily Langston]] in the cast and [[Anthony Farmer]] as stage director.
 He directed the [[Children's Theatre]] open-air production of  ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' at the [[Zoo Lake]] in the summer of 1957  and at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre.

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	He was a political activist and a member of the Communist Party. His role in underground political activities during the 1950s and 1960s in South Africa is described in Greta Schiller's documentary film ''[[The Man Who Drove With Mandela]]'' (he was a passenger in the car when Nelson Mandela was arrested near Pietermaritzburg) shown at the Berlin Film festival in 1999. He was forced into permanent exile in 1962 and died in London in 1979.		He was a political activist and a member of the Communist Party. His role in underground political activities during the 1950s and 1960s in South Africa is described in Greta Schiller's documentary film ''[[The Man Who Drove With Mandela]]'' (he was a passenger in the car when Nelson Mandela was arrested near Pietermaritzburg) shown at the Berlin Film festival in 1999. He was forced into permanent exile in 1962 and died in London in 1979.
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 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.
-Obituary, ''The Star'', 10 May 1979.
+Obituary, ''[[The Star]]'', 10 May 1979.
-''Insig'' (re political activities), October 1999.
+''[[Insig]]'' (re political activities), October 1999.
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-[[Cecil Williams]] (19**-1979). A school teacher by profession, also directed plays.
+[[Cecil Williams]] (1906-1979). A school teacher by profession, also directed plays.
 == Biography ==
-He was a political activist and a member of the Communist Party. His role in underground political activities during the 1950s and 1960s in South Africa is described in the documentary film ''The Man Who Drove With Mandela'' (he was a passenger in the car when Nelson Mandela was arrested in Pietermaritzburg) shown at the Berlin Film festival in 1999. He was forced into permanent exile in 1962 and died in London in 1979.
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	Obituary, ''The Star'', 10 May 1979.		Obituary, ''The Star'', 10 May 1979.
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 He failed to draw audiences with Jean-Paul Sartre’s double bill, ''[[Huis Clos|The Vicious Circle]]'' and ''[[The Respectable Prostitute]]'' at the [[Library Theatre]] in 1957. Towards the end of the same year, Cecil brought out British actor [[David Kossoff]] to star in ''[[The World of Sholom Aleichem]]''.
-He directed ''[[The Kimberley Train]]'', which was staged at the [[Library Theatre]] in 1958 and in the same year ''[[The Long and the Short and the Tall]]''.
+He directed ''[[The Kimberley Train]]'', which was staged at the [[Library Theatre]] in 1958 and in the same year ''[[The Long and the Short and the Tall]]'', ''[[Blue Denim]]'' in 1959.
 He directed ''[[Guilty Party]]'' for the [[Johannesburg Repertory Society]] in 1962.

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 == Biography ==
-While in the South African Navy, [[Leonard Schach]] directed [[Leon Gluckman]] and [[Cecil Williams]] in ''[[The Middle Watch]]'' at the [[Little Theatre]] in 1944.
+He was forced into permanent exile in 1962 and died in London in 1979.
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 He directed plays for the  [[East Rand Theatre Club]] and on occasion acted as adjudicator for the [[FATSSA Play Festival]].