John Nankin - Revision history

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 John acted in ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]'', ''[[Picnic on the Battlefield]]'', ''[[Tsafendas]]'' and ''[[What the Butler Saw]]''.
-He directed ''[[Four Twins]]'', ''[[In Two Minds]]'', ''[[Patty Hearst]]'' and ''[[Sticks and Bones]]'', and was stage manager for ''[[The Exception and the Rule]]''.  His production of Arrabal’s ''[[The Car Cemetery]]'' at [[The People’s Space]] was banned by the Publications Control Board.
+He directed ''[[Four Twins]]'', ''[[In Two Minds]]'', ''[[Patty Hearst]]'' and ''[[Sticks and Bones]]'', and was stage manager for ''[[The Exception and the Rule]]''.  His production of Arrabal’s ''[[The Car Cemetery]]'' at [[The People's Space]] was banned by the Publications Control Board.
 In 1981 he co-initiated the avant-garde [[Glass Theatre]] group with [[Chris Pretorius]] in Cape Town, For [[Glass Theatre]] he was involved in the productions ''[[More Mysteries of Love]]'' and ''[[Battle!]]'' in 1981.

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	John Nankin joined [[The Space]] Theatre in 1973 as a stage designer and set builder directing plays in the venue’s fringe under the mentorship of Brian Astbury. In the late 1970s, he participated in experimental performance workshops with [[Chas Unwin]], [[Jacqui Singer]], [[Marcel van Heerden]], [[Barney Simon]] and others; before co-initiating the avant-garde and now historic [[Glass Theatre]] with [[Chris Pretorius]] in Cape Town in 1981, a group whose ground-breaking work was informed by a return to Surrealism and Dada.		John Nankin joined [[The Space]] Theatre in 1973 as a stage designer and set builder directing plays in the venue’s fringe under the mentorship of Brian Astbury. In the late 1970s, he participated in experimental performance workshops with [[Chas Unwin]], [[Jacqui Singer]], [[Marcel van Heerden]], [[Barney Simon]] and others; before co-initiating the avant-garde and now historic [[Glass Theatre]] with [[Chris Pretorius]] in Cape Town in 1981, a group whose ground-breaking work was informed by a return to Surrealism and Dada.

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 worked at The Space Theatre as stage designer and set builder from 1974, later also directing plays in the venue’s fringe under the mentorship of [[Brian Astbury]].
 His work for [[The Space]] in the 1970s include designs for ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]'', ''[[Edith Piaf – Je Vous Aime]]'', ''[[Endgame]]'', ''[[The Exception and the Rule]]'', ''[[The First South African]]'', ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'', ''[[Lesson in Blood and Roses]]'', ''[[Luv]]'', ''[[Medea]]'', ''[[My Husband’s wild desires almost drove me mad]]'', ''[[Outcry]]'', ''[[Patty Hearst]]'', ''[[Play it again, Sam]]''; ''[[Sticks and Bones]]'', ''[[Superman]]'' and ''[[Treats]]''.

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 His work for [[The Space]] in the 1970s include designs for ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]'', ''[[Edith Piaf – Je Vous Aime]]'', ''[[Endgame]]'', ''[[The Exception and the Rule]]'', ''[[The First South African]]'', ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'', ''[[Lesson in Blood and Roses]]'', ''[[Luv]]'', ''[[Medea]]'', ''[[My Husband’s wild desires almost drove me mad]]'', ''[[Outcry]]'', ''[[Patty Hearst]]'', ''[[Play it again, Sam]]''; ''[[Sticks and Bones]]'', ''[[Superman]]'' and ''[[Treats]]''.
 John acted in ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]'', ''[[Picnic on the Battlefield]]'', ''[[Tsafendas]]'' and ''[[What the Butler Saw]]''.
-He directed ''[[Four Twins]]'', ''[[In Two Minds]]'', ''[[Patty Hearst]]'' and ''[[Sticks and Bones]]'', and was stage manager for ''[[The Exception and the Rule]]''.
+He directed ''[[Four Twins]]'', ''[[In Two Minds]]'', ''[[Patty Hearst]]'' and ''[[Sticks and Bones]]'', and was stage manager for ''[[The Exception and the Rule]]''.  His production of Arrabal’s ''[[The Car Cemetery]]'' at [[The People’s Space]] was banned by the Publications Control Board.
-For [[Glass Theatre]] he was involved in the productions ''[[More Mysteries of Love]]'' and ''[[Battle!]]'' in 1981.
+In 1981 he co-initiated the avant-garde [[Glass Theatre]] group with [[Chris Pretorius]] in Cape Town, For [[Glass Theatre]] he was involved in the productions ''[[More Mysteries of Love]]'' and ''[[Battle!]]'' in 1981.
 John and [[Chris Pretorius]] developed a play, ''[[Sex...Female]]'', based on Dario Fo's ''[[Ulrike Meinhoff; Sex: Female; Communist]]'' in the 1980s.
-He created a work called ''[[Mama Papa Kaka]]''  in collaboration with [[Ivor Powell]] in 1983, as part of  the first program shown by Possession, a Johannesburg-based artists’ collective, associated with performance and installation. Onto this relic from his ‘childhood’, Nankin has grafted a new work in 2012, ''[[A leg to stand on]]''.
+In  1984 he co-founded the [[Possession Arts collective]], a Johannesburg-based artists’ collective, associated with performance and installation, in 1984, ''inter alia'' creating a work called ''[[Mama Papa Kaka]]'' in collaboration with [[Ivor Powell]], as part of the first program shown by Possession.
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	[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az\|Astbury]] 1979.		[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az\|Astbury]] 1979.

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 === Career ===
 John Nankin joined [[The Space]] Theatre in 1973 as a stage designer and set builder directing plays in the venue’s fringe under the mentorship of Brian Astbury. In the late 1970s, he participated in experimental performance workshops with  [[Chas Unwin]], [[Jacqui Singer]], [[Marcel van Heerden]], [[Barney Simon]] and others; before co-initiating the avant-garde and now historic [[Glass Theatre]] with [[Chris Pretorius]] in Cape Town in 1981, a group whose ground-breaking work was informed by a return to Surrealism and Dada.
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 For [[Glass Theatre]] is was involved in the productions ''[[More Mysteries of Love]]'' and ''[[Battle!]]'' in 1981.
-''[[Sex...Female]]'' wat Chris Pretorius en John Nankin saam ontwikkcl is, is geskoei op die Italiaansc dramaturg Dario Fo se ''[[Ulrike Meinhoff; Sex: Female; Communist]]'' in the 1980s.
+John and [[Chris Pretorius]] developed a play, ''[[Sex...Female]]'', based on Dario Fo's ''[[Ulrike Meinhoff; Sex: Female; Communist]]'' in the 1980s.
 He created a work called ''[[Mama Papa Kaka]]''  in collaboration with [[Ivor Powell]] in 1983, as part of  the first program shown by Possession, a Johannesburg-based artists’ collective, associated with performance and installation. Onto this relic from his ‘childhood’, Nankin has grafted a new work in 2012, ''[[A leg to stand on]]''.

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 For [[Glass Theatre]] is was involved in the productions ''[[More Mysteries of Love]]'' and ''[[Battle!]]'' in 1981.
 He created a work called ''[[Mama Papa Kaka]]''  in collaboration with [[Ivor Powell]] in 1983, as part of  the first program shown by Possession, a Johannesburg-based artists’ collective, associated with performance and installation. Onto this relic from his ‘childhood’, Nankin has grafted a new work in 2012, ''[[A leg to stand on]]''.
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 == Sources ==
 [[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az|Astbury]] 1979.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]