Rob Amato - 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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As director

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As playwright

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As playwright

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As playwright

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As dircetor

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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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 : [[Matsemela Manaka]]’s ''[[Egoli]]'' ([[The Space Theatre]])
 : ''[[The Sacrifice of Kreli]]'' (co-directed with [[Makwedini Mtsaka]], [[Market Theatre]])
 : ''[[The Road to Mecca]]'' (co-directed with [[Bo Petersen]]) for [[CAPAB]] , with [[Lida Meiring]] as “Helen Martins”.
 ===As playwright===
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 * ''[[Gilette & Bertrand]]'' (a comedy with music, 2000)
 * ''[[The Ecstatic Phantasmagoria of Doctor Fortunato]]''
 ===As pubisher===

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 In 1970 became a co-founder (with [[Skhala Xinwa]]) of [[Imitha Players]] of East London, for whom he directed i.a. local adaptations of ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' (1971),  Molière's ''[[The Miser]]'' (1975),  [[Wole Soyinka]]’s ''[[The Swamp Dwellers]]'', and work by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]. He was also founder of the [[Window Theatre]] in East London.
-He later moved to Cape Town and worked at [[The Space Theatre]].
+He later moved to Cape Town and worked at [[The Space Theatre]]. He took over [[Space Theatre|The Space]] when [[Brian Astbury]] left for London in 1980 and – with [[Moira Fine]] - ran it as The [[People's Space]]. For them he directed work such as [[Sam Shepard]]’s ''[[Cowboy Mouth]]'',  [[David Hare]]’s ''[[Fanshen]]'' and [[Chris Barnard]]’s ''[[Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey]]''.
 ===As actor===

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 He later moved to Cape Town and worked at [[The Space Theatre]].
 He took over [[Space Theatre|The Space]] when [[Brian Astbury]] left for London in 1980 and – with [[Moira Fine]] - ran it as The [[People's Space]]. For them he directed work such as [[Sam Shepard]]’s ''[[Cowboy Mouth]]'',  [[David Hare]]’s ''[[Fanshen]]'' and [[Chris Barnard]]’s ''[[Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey]]''.
 ===As director===

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 ===As director===
-: ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' [[Imitha Players]]
+: ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' ([[Imitha Players]])
-: ''[[The Miser]]'' [[Imitha Players]]
+: ''[[The Miser]]'' ([[Imitha Players]])
-: ''[[The Sacrifice of Kreli]]'' (([[The Space Theatre]])
+: ''[[The Sacrifice of Kreli]]'' ([[The Space Theatre]])
 : [[Matsemela Manaka]]’s ''[[Egoli]]'' ([[The Space Theatre]])

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 * ''[[Baas Botha's Coming]]'' (1973)
 * ''[[The Mind Mirror]]'' (1975)
-* ''[[Not For The Deserving]]''
+* ''[[Not For The Deserving]]'' (1978)
 * ''[[Gilette & Bertrand]]'' (a comedy with music, 2000)
 * ''[[The Ecstatic Phantasmagoria of Doctor Fortunato]]''

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 In 1970 became a co-founder (with [[Skhala Xinwa]]) of [[Imitha Players]] of East London, for whom he directed i.a. local adaptations of ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' (1971),  Molière's ''[[The Miser]]'' (1975),  [[Wole Soyinka]]’s ''[[The Swamp Dwellers]]'', and work by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]. He was also founder of the [[Window Theatre]] in East London.
 He later moved to Cape Town and worked at [[The Space Theatre]].  He directed [[Matsemela Manaka]]’s ''[[Egoli]]'' and (along with [[Makwedini Mtsaka]]) [[Fatima Dike]]’s ''[[The Sacrifice of Kreli]]'', [[Market Theatre]] 1987.
 He acted in ''[[Female Transport]]'' and his own play,  ''[[The Mind Mirror]]''.
 He took over [[Space Theatre|The Space]] when [[Brian Astbury]] left for London in 1980 and – with [[Moira Fine]] - ran it as The [[People's Space]]. For them he directed work such as [[Sam Shepard]]’s ''[[Cowboy Mouth]]'',  [[David Hare]]’s ''[[Fanshen]]'' and [[Chris Barnard]]’s ''[[Die Rebellie van Lafras Verwey]]''.
 : ''[[The Road to Mecca]]'' (co-directed with [[Bo Petersen]]) for [[CAPAB]] , with [[Lida Meiring]] as “Helen Martins”.
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 * ''[[The Ecstatic Phantasmagoria of Doctor Fortunato]]''
 * ''[[Baas Botha's Coming]]''.
 ==Awards==