Laurence Sidney Hall - Revision history

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=Management

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Theatre

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

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Biography

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

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Sources

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 (The above were all listed by my father on his “theatrical CV” which was submitted to the Broken Hill Arts Society (Kabwe Zambia) when he applied for the position as Producer at the Venus Theatre).
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+===Management===
 In 1957 Laurence Hall moved to Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia where he continued as the Producer for the '''Broken Hill Arts Society''' (later became '''Kabwe Arts Society''') until 1969. For this society he wrote a play for produced in Kabwe for '''Behind any Door''', the 1962 '''Northern Rhodesian Theatre Festival''' and drew up the plans and oversaw the building, refurbishment and conversion of the existing hall to a complete 170 seater theatre.

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	Also known as [[Laurie Hall]].		Also known as [[Laurie Hall]].

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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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 ===Theatre===
-Productions:
+In the early years he did the set designs for a number of productions in Pretoria and Johannesburg, including :
 Production			Producer / Company			Employed as:
-Pygmalion			Eve Shapiro / Pretoria Amateurs			Set Designer
+''[[Pygmalion]]'' (			Eve Shapiro / Pretoria Amateurs			Set Designer
 Importance of being Ernest	Eve Shapiro / Pretoria Amateurs			Set Designer
 Dial M for Murder		Eve Shapiro					Set Designer
 Dream Girl			Joan Brink for Wingate Park Club		Set Designer
 Season of Ballet			Johannesburg Ballet Theatre			Guest artist Male 				Polotzvian Dances under Ame de Nitre		lead

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 Besides his interest in theatre, Hall was a keen ballet supporter and dancer and took part in a few productions by the [[Johannesburg Ballet Theatre]] and the [[SA Ballet Company]].
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 Between 1952 and 1955 he took part in several productions either as walk-on parts or in set designing and Stage Management, the year in which he and [[Clifford Williams]] started the [[Arena Theatre Company]] in Johannesburg.
-Acting roles
+===Theatre===
 Productions:
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 (The above were all listed by my father on his “theatrical CV” which was submitted to the Broken Hill Arts Society (Kabwe Zambia) when he applied for the position as Producer at the Venus Theatre).
 In 1957 Laurence Hall moved to Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia where he continued as the Producer for the '''Broken Hill Arts Society''' (later became '''Kabwe Arts Society''') until 1969. For this society he wrote a play for produced in Kabwe for '''Behind any Door''', the 1962 '''Northern Rhodesian Theatre Festival''' and drew up the plans and oversaw the building, refurbishment and conversion of the existing hall to a complete 170 seater theatre.

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−	[[Laurence Sidney Hall]] (1930-~~2016~~) was a theatre practitioner ~~in Johannesburg~~.	+	[[Laurence Sidney Hall]] (1930-2015) was a human resources specialist and theatre practitioner.

	Also known as [[Laurie Hall]].		Also known as [[Laurie Hall]].

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 Laurence (Laurie) was born in Pretoria on 25 February 1930. After completing his high school education at Pretoria Boys High School in 1945, at the tender age of 15, he attended the  [[University  of Pretoria]] to study architecture, which he completed, and then decided he didn’t want to be an architect, he would rather be in the theatre, initially as dancers, actor, set designer, stage manager and theatre manager in South Africa and then for a number of years (1957-1968) in the then Rhodesia.
-He returned to Joahnesburg in 1969, but now began building a career in Human Resources, eventually taking over Garry Whyte Associates, retiring there at the age of 79.
+While there he got married in 1960 and the couple had two daughters.
-He married in 1960 and had two daughters.
+He returned to Johannesburg in 1969, where he, having begun building a career in Human Resources, eventually took over the firm of Garry Whyte Associates, retiring at the age of 79.
-He died in Johannesburg on 3rd September 2015 of lung complications
+Hall died in Johannesburg on 3rd September 2015 of lung complications
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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 (The above were all listed by my father on his “theatrical CV” which was submitted to the Broken Hill Arts Society (Kabwe Zambia) when he applied for the position as Producer at the Venus Theatre).
-In 1957 Laurence Hall moved to Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia where he continued as the Producer for the Broken Hill Arts Society (became Kabwe Arts Society) until 1969. He married in 1960 and had two daughters. He wrote his own play which was produced in Kabwe for the 1962 Northern Rhodesian Theatre Festival called “Behind any Door” and also drew up the plans and oversaw the building, refurbishment and conversion of the existing hall to a complete 170 seater theatre.
+In 1957 Laurence Hall moved to Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia where he continued as the Producer for the '''Broken Hill Arts Society''' (later became '''Kabwe Arts Society''') until 1969. For this society he wrote a play for produced in Kabwe for '''Behind any Door''', the 1962 '''Northern Rhodesian Theatre Festival''' and drew up the plans and oversaw the building, refurbishment and conversion of the existing hall to a complete 170 seater theatre.
+After his return from Rhodesia, he still took part in a few amateur productions in the next few years, but was by then concentrating on his career so never worked professionally again.
 == Sources ==

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−	[[Laurence Sidney Hall]] (~~[[Laurie Hall]],~~ 1930-2016) was a theatre practitioner in Johannesburg.	+	[[Laurence Sidney Hall]] (1930-2016) was a theatre practitioner in Johannesburg.

		+	Also known as [[Laurie Hall]].
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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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−	E-mail correspondence from Lesley Gilbert, daughter of L.S. Hall (5 May, 2020)	+	E-mail correspondence from Lesley Gilbert, daughter of [[L.S. Hall]] (5 May and 13 May, 2020)

	Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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-[[Laurence Sidney Hall]] (1932?-2017?) was a theatre practitioner in Johannesburg.
+[[Laurence Sidney Hall]] ([[Laurie Hall]], 1930-2016) was a theatre practitioner in Johannesburg.
-== Biography ==
+Laurence (Laurie) was born in Pretoria on 25 February 1930. After completing his high school education at Pretoria Boys High School in 1945, at the tender age of 15, he attended the  [[University  of Pretoria]] to study architecture, which he completed, and then decided he didn’t want to be an architect, he would rather be in the theatre, initially as dancers, actor, set designer, stage manager and theatre manager in South Africa and then for a number of years (1957-1968) in the then Rhodesia.
-Born on … in 1932(?) in …
+He returned to Joahnesburg in 1969, but now began building a career in Human Resources, eventually taking over Garry Whyte Associates, retiring there at the age of 79.
-He passed away in 2017(?).
+He died in Johannesburg on 3rd September 2015 of lung complications
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 He was very involved in the [[Arena Theatre Company]] in Johannesburg in the 1950’s, where he worked with people such as [[Taubie Kushlick]], [[Siegfried Mynhardt]] and [[Robert Lang]]. Among the plays he was involved with were ...