Geoffrey Hyland - Revision history

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Awards, etc

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Training

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Sources

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	2014: ''[[Titus Andronicus]]''		2014: ''[[Titus Andronicus]]''
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		+	2018: ''[[A Lie of the Mind]]'', ''[[Yerma]]''
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		+	2020: ''[[Blood Wedding]]'' (cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions)

	Other productions (dates unknown) include: ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'', ''[[Wounds to the Face]]'', ''[[Slowly]]'', ''[[Othello]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[All’s Well That Ends Well]]''. He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',		Other productions (dates unknown) include: ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'', ''[[Wounds to the Face]]'', ''[[Slowly]]'', ''[[Othello]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[All’s Well That Ends Well]]''. He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',

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 : ''[[As You Like It]]''
 : ''[[Sacred Elephant]]'' (also co-writer)
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 : ''[[Titus Andronicus]]''
-Other productions (dates unknown) include: ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'', ''[[Wounds to the Face]]'', ''[[Slowly]]'', ''[[Opera 5:20]]'', ''[[Othello]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[All’s Well That Ends Well]]''. He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',
+Other productions (dates unknown) include: ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'', ''[[Wounds to the Face]]'', ''[[Slowly]]'',  ''[[Othello]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[All’s Well That Ends Well]]''. He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',
 Décor and costume ''[[A Doll House]]'', designed ''[[The Rimers of Eldritch]]''.

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	He was the [[Standard Bank Young Artist Awards\|Young Artist Award]] winner for drama in 1997.		He was the [[Standard Bank Young Artist Awards\|Young Artist Award]] winner for drama in 1997.
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		+	Other awards include: [[Kanna Awards]] for Best Dance Production and Best Technical. [[Fleur du Cap Award]], [[Vita Award]] and [[Kanna Award]] nominations for Best Director.

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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 === Career ===
-He became a teacher and Associate Professor at [[UCT]].
+He became a teacher and Associate Professor at [[UCT]]. Hyland directs theatre, opera and dance professionally, and teaches across a range of courses with particular interest in directing, acting for stage and camera, and design. his special focus: the staging of gender and sexual politics in theatrical productions and directing Shakespeare.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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 Won the [[Rosalie van der Gucht Prize]] for New Directors in 1989 and went on to become a successful director of student and professional work in Cape Town.
 Productions as director include:
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 : ''[[Titus Andronicus]]''
-He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',
+Other productions (dates unknown) include: ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'', ''[[Wounds to the Face]]'', ''[[Slowly]]'', ''[[Opera 5:20]]'', ''[[Othello]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[King Lear]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[All’s Well That Ends Well]]''. He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',
 Décor and costume ''[[A Doll House]]'', designed ''[[The Rimers of Eldritch]]''.
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 [[Hilde Roos]]. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. [[Stellenbosch University]].
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 === Training ===
-Went to school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein, studied at the [[University of Cape Town]] and later became a teacher and Associate Professor there. Also studied at York University Toronto.
+Went to school at [[Grey College]], Bloemfontein and also studied there (BA UOVS), studied at the [[University of Cape Town]] (BA Hons) and later became a teacher (HDE) and Associate Professor there. Also studied at York University Toronto (MFA York).
 === Career ===

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 : ''[[Agamemnon]]''
-: ''[[Deathwatch]]'
+: ''[[Deathwatch]]''
 : ''[[French Gray]]''

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 Won the [[Rosalie van der Gucht Prize]] for New Directors in 1989 and went on to become a successful director of student and professional work in Cape Town.
 Productions as director include:
-''[[Old Wicked Songs]]'', ''[[Barrymore]]'', ''[[Madman]]'', ''[[A Night in November]]'', ''[[The Ghost Sonata]]'', ''[[Strangers on a Train]]'', ''[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]'', ''[[Via Dolorosa]]'',  , ''[[Habeas Corpus]]'', ''[[Women Beware Women]]'', ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' (UCT),   ''[[Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris|Kissed by Brel]]''
+: ''[[Madame de Sade]]''
-: ''[[Madame de Sade]]''
+: ''[[The Ghost Sonata]]'', ''[[Habeas Corpus]]'' ([[UCT]])
 : ''[[Agamemnon]]''
 : ''[[Deathwatch]]'
 : ''[[Madame de Sade]]''
-: ''[[The Blue Room]]''
+: ''[[Old Wicked Songs]]'', ''[[Barrymore]]'' ([[Pieter Toerien]])
-: ''[[The Trojan Women]]''
+: ''[[The Trojan Women]]'', ''[[Via Dolorosa]]'' ([[Pieter Toerien]])
 : ''[[Macbeth]]''
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 : ''[[Twelfth Night]]''
 : ''[[As You Like It]]''
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 : ''[[Between]]''
 : ''[[Titus Andronicus]]''
-He was also involved with ''[[French Gray]]'', ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',
+He was also involved with ''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]'',
 Décor and costume ''[[A Doll House]]'', designed ''[[The Rimers of Eldritch]]''.

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 == Sources ==
 ''Madame de Sade'' programme notes, 1997.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]