Donald Howarth - Revision history

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 He directed a number of plays, including many of his own. Some of these include:
-: ''[[Enemy – An Anti-War Collage]] ([[Space Theatre]'')
+: ''[[Enemy – An Anti-War Collage]]'' ([[Space Theatre]])
-: ''[[Scarborough]]'' ([[Space Theatre]'')
+: ''[[Scarborough]]'' ([[Space Theatre]])
-: ''[[Othello Slegs Blankes]]'' ([[Space Theatre]'')
+: ''[[Othello Slegs Blankes]]'' ([[Space Theatre]])
 : ''[[Yin-Yang Cinders]]'' ([[PACT]])

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−	[[Donald Howarth]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Howarth] (1931-) is a British playwright, director and designer.	+	[[Donald Howarth]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Howarth] (1931-2020) was a British playwright, director and designer.

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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	1979: ''[[Ibchek]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])		1979: ''[[Ibchek]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
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		+	1980?: ''[[The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God]]'' ([[People's Space]])

	1980/1981: ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]])		1980/1981: ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]])

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 * ''[[School Play]]'' (1972)
-Earlier plays of his also stage din South Africa include:
+* ''[[Ibchek]]'' (1979)
 * ''[[A Lily in Little India]]''
 * ''[[Three Months Gone]]''
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 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.
-Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]
+[[Walter Greyvenstein|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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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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 In 1972 he came to Cape Town.
-===As playwright==
+===As playwright===
 He wrote and devised a number of plays for performance in South Africa. These include:

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 [[Donald Howarth]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Howarth] (1931-) is a British playwright, director and designer.
-== Biography ==
+===As playwright==
-Trained at Esme Church's Northern Theatre School in Bradford, he worked in various repertory theatres around England. His first play ''[[Sugar in the Morning]]'', was selected first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959.
+: ''[[Scarborough]]'' ([[Space Theatre]'')
-== Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance ==
+: ''[[Yin-Yang Cinders]]'' ([[PACT]])
-In 1972 he came to Cape Town and wrote, directed as well as designed a number of plays for [[Space Theatre]], including ''[[Enemy!|Enemy - An Anti-War Collage]]'' (1972) and ''[[Scarborough]]'' (1972). He also wrote and directed ''[[Othello Slegs Blankes]]'' (197*) and wrote ''[[School Play]]'' (directed by [[Limpie Basson]] in 197*). * He wrote ''[[A Lily in Little India]]'' and ''[[Three Months Gone]]'' which [[PACT]] staged at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1973, starring [[Helen Bourne]], [[Barbara Kinghorn]] and [[Frantz Dobrowsky]]. [[Jack Klaff]] starred in the latter. He created and directed his own play ''[[Ibchek]]'' for the [[Market Theatre]], to open at the 1979 [[Grahamstown Festival]], and for a run in the theatre [[Upstairs at the Market]]. He directed Beckett’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' starring [[John Kani]], [[Winston Ntshona]] and [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]. It was staged at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and at the [[Market Theatre|Market]] in 1980 before leaving for the USA and Britain.
+/1981:  ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]])
 == Sources ==

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 == Sources ==
-Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Howarth].
+[[Brian Astbury]]. 2015. "A British playwright, a monkey for President, and a play with a missing leading man…", in: ''Theatre of Survival. The Story of The Space''[https://theatreofsurvival.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/20-a-british-playwright-a-monkey-for-president-and-a-play-with-a-missing-leading-man/]
 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.

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−	In 1972 he came to Cape Town and wrote, directed as well as designed a number of plays for [[Space Theatre]], including ''[[Enemy!\|Enemy - An Anti-War Collage]]'' (1972) and ''[[Scarborough]]'' (197). He also wrote and directed ''[[Othello Slegs Blankes]]'' (197) and wrote ''[[School Play]]'' (directed by [[Limpie Basson]] in 197). He wrote ''[[A Lily in Little India]]'' and ''[[Three Months Gone]]'' which [[PACT]] staged at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1973, starring [[Helen Bourne]], [[Barbara Kinghorn]] and [[Frantz Dobrowsky]]. [[Jack Klaff]] starred in the latter. He created and directed his own play ''[[Ibchek]]'' for the [[Market Theatre]], to open at the 1979 [[Grahamstown Festival]], and for a run in the theatre [[Upstairs at the Market]]. He directed Beckett’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' starring [[John Kani]], [[Winston Ntshona]] and [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]. It was staged at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and at the [[Market Theatre\|Market]] in 1980 before leaving for the USA and Britain.	+	In 1972 he came to Cape Town and wrote, directed as well as designed a number of plays for [[Space Theatre]], including ''[[Enemy!\|Enemy - An Anti-War Collage]]'' (1972) and ''[[Scarborough]]'' (1972). He also wrote and directed ''[[Othello Slegs Blankes]]'' (197) and wrote ''[[School Play]]'' (directed by [[Limpie Basson]] in 197). * He wrote ''[[A Lily in Little India]]'' and ''[[Three Months Gone]]'' which [[PACT]] staged at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1973, starring [[Helen Bourne]], [[Barbara Kinghorn]] and [[Frantz Dobrowsky]]. [[Jack Klaff]] starred in the latter. He created and directed his own play ''[[Ibchek]]'' for the [[Market Theatre]], to open at the 1979 [[Grahamstown Festival]], and for a run in the theatre [[Upstairs at the Market]]. He directed Beckett’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' starring [[John Kani]], [[Winston Ntshona]] and [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]. It was staged at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and at the [[Market Theatre\|Market]] in 1980 before leaving for the USA and Britain.

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==