John Hussey - Revision history

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	==Sources==		==Sources==
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		+	Original programme from [[Oh, What a Lovely War]], [[PEMADS]], 6-20 November, 1976.

	[[SACD]] 1979/80; 1980/81; 1981/82.		[[SACD]] 1979/80; 1980/81; 1981/82.

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 -20 November, 1976: Directed [[Oh What a Lovely War]] for [[PEMADS]] with musical director [[Jandy Offerman]] and Choreographer [[Jacquie Newman]]. Starring Starring [[Brenda Chapel]], [[Jacquie Gilson]], [[Bunty Gammon]], [[Dee Hart]], [[Gill Killeen]], [[Melissa Lyall]], [[Dianne Kingsley]], [[Patricia Schultze]], [[Jean Young]], [[Dorothy-Lynne Watkins]], [[Bud Baylis]], [[David Carver]], [[Dennis Evans]], [[Robert Gardiner]], [[George Jones]], [[Gwyn James]], [[Bill Kemp]], [[Chris Mathew]], [[Roy McGregor]], [[Gordon Roberts]] and [[Dennis Slattery]].
- Together with [[Mannie Manim]] he co-directed [[The Company]]’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[Absurd Person Singular]]'', designed by [[Anthony Farmer]] and starring [[Diane Appleby]], [[Graham Armitage]], [[Naomi Buch]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Kerry Jordan]] and [[Gay Lambert]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in November 1977.
+Together with [[Mannie Manim]] he co-directed [[The Company]]’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[Absurd Person Singular]]'', designed by [[Anthony Farmer]] and starring [[Diane Appleby]], [[Graham Armitage]], [[Naomi Buch]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Kerry Jordan]] and [[Gay Lambert]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in November 1977.
 Directed ''[[Count Dracula]]'' ([[NAPAC]], [[Alhambra Theatre]] Durban, 1977). He directed Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[Relatively Speaking]]'' starring himself, [[Helen Jessop]], [[Andre Hattingh]] and [[John Rogers]] at The [[Market Theatre]] in 1978.
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 ''[[Breaker Morant]]'' : presented by [[NAPAC]] Drama at the [[Natal Playhouse]], directed by John Hussey, from 11 August 1987.

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 He directed ''[[Enemy!]]'' ([[PACT]] 1974). He also directed the [[PACT]] production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'', choreographed by [[Geoffrey Sutherland]] and starring [[Richard Loring]], [[Bruce Millar]] and [[Alvon Collison]] at the [[Alexander Theatre|Alexander]] in 1974. He directed Thornton Wilder’s ''[[Our Town]]'' starring [[Diane Wilson]], [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Michael McCabe]] for [[PACT]] at the [[Alexander Theatre|Alexander]] in 1976.
--20 November, 1976: Directed [[Oh What a Lovely War]] for [[PEMADS]] with musical director [[Jandy Offerman]] and Choreographer [[Jacquie Newman]]. Starring
+-20 November, 1976: Directed [[Oh What a Lovely War]] for [[PEMADS]] with musical director [[Jandy Offerman]] and Choreographer [[Jacquie Newman]]. Starring Starring [[Brenda Chapel]], [[Jacquie Gilson]], [[Bunty Gammon]], [[Dee Hart]], [[Gill Killeen]], [[Melissa Lyall]], [[Dianne Kingsley]], [[Patricia Schultze]], [[Jean Young]], [[Dorothy-Lynne Watkins]], [[Bud Baylis]], [[David Carver]], [[Dennis Evans]], [[Robert Gardiner]], [[George Jones]], [[Gwyn James]], [[Bill Kemp]], [[Chris Mathew]], [[Roy McGregor]], [[Gordon Roberts]] and [[Dennis Slattery]].
   Together with [[Mannie Manim]] he co-directed [[The Company]]’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[Absurd Person Singular]]'', designed by [[Anthony Farmer]] and starring [[Diane Appleby]], [[Graham Armitage]], [[Naomi Buch]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Kerry Jordan]] and [[Gay Lambert]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in November 1977.

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 He directed Peter Shaffer’s double bill ''[[Black Comedy]]'' and ''[[The White Liars]]'' with [[Ruth Oppenheim]] and [[Eckard Rabe]] for [[PACT]]/[[TRUK]] at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1972 and ''[[You Can't Take It With You]]'' in 1972. His production of ''[[A Man and His Wife]]'' starring [[Stuart Brown]] was also staged at the [[Brooke Theatre|Brooke]] in 1972 and at the [[Alhambra Theatre]], Durban, from 10 April 1972. He directed and starred in [[Noël Coward]]’s ''[[Hay Fever]]'' together with [[Shelagh Holliday]], and Shakespeare’s ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' with [[Eckard Rabe]], [[Annelisa Weiland]], [[James White]] and [[Siegfried Mynhardt]] for [[PACT]] in 1974.
-He directed ''[[Enemy!]]'' ([[PACT]] 1974). He also directed the [[PACT]] production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'', choreographed by [[Geoffrey Sutherland]] and starring [[Richard Loring]], [[Bruce Millar]] and [[Alvon Collison]] at the [[Alexander Theatre|Alexander]] in 1974. He directed Thornton Wilder’s ''[[Our Town]]'' starring [[Diane Wilson]], [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Michael McCabe]] for [[PACT]] at the [[Alexander Theatre|Alexander]] in 1976. Together with [[Mannie Manim]] he co-directed [[The Company]]’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[Absurd Person Singular]]'', designed by [[Anthony Farmer]] and starring [[Diane Appleby]], [[Graham Armitage]], [[Naomi Buch]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Kerry Jordan]] and [[Gay Lambert]] at the [[Market Theatre]] in November 1977.
+He directed ''[[Enemy!]]'' ([[PACT]] 1974). He also directed the [[PACT]] production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'', choreographed by [[Geoffrey Sutherland]] and starring [[Richard Loring]], [[Bruce Millar]] and [[Alvon Collison]] at the [[Alexander Theatre|Alexander]] in 1974. He directed Thornton Wilder’s ''[[Our Town]]'' starring [[Diane Wilson]], [[Danny Keogh]] and [[Michael McCabe]] for [[PACT]] at the [[Alexander Theatre|Alexander]] in 1976.
 Directed ''[[Count Dracula]]'' ([[NAPAC]], [[Alhambra Theatre]] Durban, 1977). He directed Alan Ayckbourn’s ''[[Relatively Speaking]]'' starring himself, [[Helen Jessop]], [[Andre Hattingh]] and [[John Rogers]] at The [[Market Theatre]] in 1978.

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 [[SACD]] 1979/80; 1980/81; 1981/82.
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 [[Percy Baneshik]]. 1971. Nominations made for theatre awards. ''[[The Star]]'', 13 October, 1971.
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	[[Percy Baneshik]]. 1971. Nominations made for theatre awards. ''[[The Star]]'', 13 October, 1971.		[[Percy Baneshik]]. 1971. Nominations made for theatre awards. ''[[The Star]]'', 13 October, 1971.
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	Obituary by Penny Charteris in the ''Sunday Times'', 10 September 1995.		Obituary by Penny Charteris in the ''Sunday Times'', 10 September 1995.
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		+	[[Percy Baneshik]]. 1971. Nominations made for theatre awards. ''[[The Star]]'', 13 October, 1971.

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 == Biography ==
-John was born in London. He died in September 1995 in Johannesburg.
+John, who was born in London, came to South Africa in 1952. He died in September 1995 in Johannesburg.
 === Training ===
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 === Career ===
-Already a well-established theatrical personality he came to South Africa in 1952 and for the next five years was heavily involved in acting and directing. Returning to England in 1958 he worked extensively in all the entertainment media including a large selection of prestige plays for TV and film and 6 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1971 John returned to South Africa to play in productions of ''[[In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'' and ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]''.
+Already a well-established theatrical personality, he came to South Africa in 1952 and for the next five years was heavily involved in acting and directing. Returning to England in 1958 he worked extensively in all the entertainment media including a large selection of prestige plays for TV and film and 6 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1971 John returned to South Africa to play in productions of ''[[In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'' and ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]''.
 Actor and director for the [[National Theatre Organisation]], later became a member of the [[PACT]] English company for many years.

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-IMDb [www.imdb.com/name/nm0404037/]
+[[IMDb]] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404037/]
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