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	1945: ''[[The Boy With A Cart]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])		1945: ''[[The Boy With A Cart]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])
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		+	1951: ''[[The Admirable Crichton]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])

	1970: ''[[Three Sisters]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])		1970: ''[[Three Sisters]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])

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 During her time at UCT she directed many plays at the [[Little Theatre]] and for other groups ranging from Greek tragedy to contemporary works.
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 During her time at UCT she directed many plays at the [[Little Theatre]] and for other groups ranging from Greek tragedy to contemporary works.
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 During her time at UCT she directed many plays at the [[Little Theatre]] and for other groups ranging from Greek tragedy to contemporary works.
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	During her time at UCT she directed many plays at the [[Little Theatre]] and for other groups ranging from Greek tragedy to contemporary works.		During her time at UCT she directed many plays at the [[Little Theatre]] and for other groups ranging from Greek tragedy to contemporary works.
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		+	1951: ''[[The Boy With a Cart]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])

	1970: ''[[Three Sisters]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])		1970: ''[[Three Sisters]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])

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 In the early 1950s she was invited to establish a branch of Evans and Tilley's [[Children's Theatre Incorporated]] in Cape Town. Van der Gucht however differed in policy from her northern colleagues, for she wanted to harness the educational possibilities to those of entertainment, promoting simplicity of presentation and participation by the audience, rather than passive observation of spectacle. Her productions (e.g. ''[[Arena Entertainment]]'', ''[[Let's Make an Opera]]'' and [[Brian Way]]'s ''[[Pinocchio]]'', adapted by [[Gretel Mills]]) all made use of informal arena-style staging and audience participation which influenced the action of the play. These radically different ideas about the nature and practice of theatre for young audiences and complications in funding the Cape Town branch caused problems and led Van der Gucht to form an independent Organisation called [[Theatre for Youth]] in 1956, which utilized her students at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department|University of Cape Town]] rather than professional performers.
 She retired from UCT in 1971, after which she concentrated on freelance professional directing. During this period she directed all Chekov’s major works for [[CAPAB]] and [[PACOFS]]. She also continued  travelling until her death in 1985.
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	1984: ''[[The Importance of Being Oscar]]'' ([[Baxter Company 84]])		1984: ''[[The Importance of Being Oscar]]'' ([[Baxter Company 84]])
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 During her time at UCT she directed many plays at the [[Little Theatre]] and for other groups ranging from Greek tragedy to contemporary works.
-She made her debut as an actress at the [[Little Theatre]] in [[Costa Couvara]]’s 1942 production of ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' with [[Geraldine Jordi]]. This production played to the highest accolades and won a sterling review in Ivor Jones’s column in the ''Cape Argus''. She starred as Amanda in ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' by Tennessee Williams which was staged at the [[Little Theatre]] by [[Leonard Schach]] in 1948. Cast also included Rosemary Kirkcaldy.
+: ''[[Three Sisters]]'' ([[University of Cape Town Drama Department]])
-For the [[Baxter Theatre]] she directed ''[[Delicate Balance]]'', ''[[Beecham]]'' and ''[[The Importance of Being Oscar]]''. She directed Aleksei Arbuzov’s ''[[Old-World]]'' starring [[Zoë Randall]] and [[John Carson]] at the [[Leonard Rayne Theatre]] in 1984.
+She made her debut as an actress at the [[Little Theatre]] in [[Costa Couvara]]’s 1942 production of ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' with [[Geraldine Jordi]]. This production played to the highest accolades and won a sterling review in Ivor Jones’s column in the ''Cape Argus''. She starred as Amanda in ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' by Tennessee Williams which was staged at the [[Little Theatre]] by [[Leonard Schach]] in 1948. Cast also included Rosemary Kirkcaldy.
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	Van de Gucht was awarded numerous awards such as the [[AA Mutual Life]] for Best Director , the [[AA Vita Award]] and in 1970 the [[Three Leaf Arts Award\|Three Leaf Award]] for her productions of ''[[Three Sisters]]'' and ''[[The Crucible]]''.		Van de Gucht was awarded numerous awards such as the [[AA Mutual Life]] for Best Director , the [[AA Vita Award]] and in 1970 the [[Three Leaf Arts Award\|Three Leaf Award]] for her productions of ''[[Three Sisters]]'' and ''[[The Crucible]]''.
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		+	The [[Fleur du Cap Award]] for new directors is named in her honour: the [[Rosalie van der Gucht Prize]].

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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−	[[Rosalie van der Gucht]] (~~1907/8~~-1985) was a hugely popular and influential speech teacher, lecturer and director who made an enormous contribution to South African theatre in the post- World War II period.	+	[[Rosalie van der Gucht]] (1908-1985) was a hugely popular and influential speech teacher, lecturer and director who made an enormous contribution to South African theatre in the post- World War II period.

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==