Ian Bruce - Revision history

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

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

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-He appeared briefly in the early nineteen seventies on the SA stage for [[The Company]]  and in early [[SABC]] TV productions such as ''[[The Villagers]]''.  In 1999 he had a role in a [[Maynardville]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]''.
+He appeared briefly on the SA stage in the early nineteen seventies, working for [[The Company]]  and in early [[SABC]] TV productions such as ''[[The Villagers]]''.  In 1999 he had a role in a [[Maynardville]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]''.
 As playwright he wrote ''[[Falls The Shadow]],'' (his first play, produced in Holland, winning a Dutch Arts Council best new play award), ''[[My Father's House]]'', (only work at the time to evade South Africa's censorship laws, [[PACT]], 1989, directed by [[Francois Swart]]), ''[[The Gift]]'', ''[[Good Rubbish]]'', ''[[Kept in Mind]]'' (winning a Radio SA award for the play), and ''[[Groundswell]]'' ([[New Africa Theatre Association]], 2006), ''[[Transit]]'' (2009).

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 Born in Boksburg, he was trained as an actor at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in Johannesburg.
-=== Career ===
+During a long period of political exile in Holland from 1976 onwards, he co-founded the [[Tekhwini Theatre Foundation]] ('''NATA''') with [[Anthony Akerman]] and [[Joseph Mosikili]], and began writing plays.
 During a long political exile in Holland from 1976 onwards, he co-founded the [[Tekhwini Theatre Foundation]] ('''NATA''') with [[Anthony Akerman]] and [[Joseph Mosikili]], and began writing plays. Returned to South Africa in the early 1990s as an IEC monitor, manager of a Port Nolloth guest lodge and working with communities in the Richtersveld.
 In 1998, he began working with the [[New Africa Theatre Association]] in Cape Town,  for which he and his wife, [[Ina Bruce]] (néé [[Ina Vermeulen]]), created a host of productions, educational plays, and [[Industrial Theatre]] works. He later became the executive director of [[NATA]].

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 == Biography ==
-=== Youth ===
+Born in Boksburg, he was trained as an actor at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in Johannesburg.
 === Career ===
 During a long political exile in Holland from 1976 onwards, he co-founded the [[Tekhwini Theatre Foundation]] ('''NATA''') with [[Anthony Akerman]] and [[Joseph Mosikili]], and began writing plays. Returned to South Africa in the early 1990s as an IEC monitor, manager of a Port Nolloth guest lodge and working with communities in the Richtersveld.
 In 1998, he began working with the [[New Africa Theatre Association]] in Cape Town,  for which he and his wife, [[Ina Bruce]] (néé [[Ina Vermeulen]]), created a host of productions, educational plays, and [[Industrial Theatre]] works. He later became the executive director of [[NATA]].
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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 == Sources ==
-''Cape Times'', 23 February 2005.
+''[[Cape Times]]'', 23 February 2005.
 ''[[Get It]]''. Cape Town, October 2013 p. 51.

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 == Awards ==
-[[Fleur du Cap]] Best new indigenous script: Ian Bruce (''[[Groundswell]]'').
+[[Fleur du Cap]] Best new indigenous script: Ian Bruce (''[[Groundswell]]'', 2006), ''[[Transit]]'' nominated 2010.
 == Sources ==

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 == Sources ==
 ''[[Get It]]''. Cape Town, October 2013 p. 51.
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 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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 === Training ===
 Trained as an actor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
 === Career ===
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 He appeared briefly in the early nineteen seventies on the SA stage for [[The Company]]  and in early [[SABC]] TV productions such as ''[[The Villagers]]''.  In 1999 he had a role in a [[Maynardville]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]''.
-As playwright he wrote ''[[Falls The Shadow]],'' (his first play, produced in Holland, winning a Dutch Arts Council best new play award), ''[[My Father's House]]'', (only work at the time to evade South Africa's censorship laws, [[PACT]], 1989, directed by [[Francois Swart]]), ''[[The Gift]]'', ''[[Good rubbish]]'', ''[[Kept in Mind]]'' (winning a Radio SA award for the play), and ''[[Groundswell]]'' ([[New Africa Theatre Association]], 2006).
+As playwright he wrote ''[[Falls The Shadow]],'' (his first play, produced in Holland, winning a Dutch Arts Council best new play award), ''[[My Father's House]]'', (only work at the time to evade South Africa's censorship laws, [[PACT]], 1989, directed by [[Francois Swart]]), ''[[The Gift]]'', ''[[Good Rubbish]]'', ''[[Kept in Mind]]'' (winning a Radio SA award for the play), and ''[[Groundswell]]'' ([[New Africa Theatre Association]], 2006).
 == Awards ==
-[[Fleur du Cap]] Best new indigenous script: Ian Bruce (Groundswell).
+[[Fleur du Cap]] Best new indigenous script: Ian Bruce (''[[Groundswell]]'').
 == Sources ==
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 [[NELM]] catalogue.
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