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 She directed ''[[Spring Awakening]]'', ''[[A State of Innocence]]'' 1960.
-Other productions include ''[[The Human Voice]]'' 1976. ''[[Sylvia Plath - The Woman and her Work]]''
+Other productions include ''[[The Human Voice]]'' 1976. ''[[Sylvia Plath - The Woman and her Work]]'' (1984)
 In a studio in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, she opened her long dreamed of training facility, the [[Ruth Oppenheim Academy of Acting]] - where students, mostly young working people, paid a fee, but many were granted bursaries to ensure that they were able to persevere.

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 Performed in ''[[The White Liars]]'', ''[[The Grand Ceremonial]]'' and in ''[[The Jewish Wife]]''.
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 Other productions include ''[[The Human Voice]]'' 1976. ''[[Sylvia Plath - The Woman and her Work]]''
 == Awards, etc ==

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 == Biography ==
-Born Ruth Frank in Berlin, Germany, where she pursued a successful career as an actress. She and her engineer husband Peter Oppenheim fled Germany in 1936. In South Africa she quietly but quickly became one of the best of our theatrical directors. Later, in a studio in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, she opened her long dreamed of [[Ruth Oppenheim Academy of Acting]] - where students, mostly young working people, paid a fee but many were granted bursaries to ensure that they were able to persevere. One of her firmest friends was [[Wena Naudé]]. She died at the age of 92 on 17 August 1999.
+Born Ruth Frank in Berlin, Germany, where she pursued a successful career as an actress. She and her engineer husband Peter Oppenheim fled Germany in 1936. In South Africa she quietly but quickly became one of the best of our theatrical directors. One of her firmest friends was [[Wena Naudé]]. She died at the age of 92 on 17 August 1999.
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 == Biography ==
 Born Ruth Frank in Berlin, Germany, where she pursued a successful career as an actress. She and her engineer husband Peter Oppenheim fled Germany in 1936. In South Africa she quietly but quickly became one of the best of our theatrical directors. Later, in a studio in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, she opened her long dreamed of Academy of Acting - where students, mostly young working people, paid a fee but many were granted bursaries to ensure that they were able to persevere. One of her firmest friends was [[Wena Naudé]]. She died at the age of 92 on 17 August 1999.
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 == Biography ==
-Born Ruth Frank in Berlin, Germany, where she pursued a successful career as an actress. She and her engineer husband Peter Oppenheim fled Germany in 1936. In South Africa she quietly but quickly became one of the best of our theatrical directors. Later, in a studion in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, she opened her long dreamed of Academy of Acting - where students, mostly young working people, paid a fee but many were granted bursaries to ensure that they were able to persevere. One of her firmest friends was [[Wena Naudé]]. She died at the age of 92 on 17 August 1999.
+Born Ruth Frank in Berlin, Germany, where she pursued a successful career as an actress. She and her engineer husband Peter Oppenheim fled Germany in 1936. In South Africa she quietly but quickly became one of the best of our theatrical directors. Later, in a studio in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, she opened her long dreamed of Academy of Acting - where students, mostly young working people, paid a fee but many were granted bursaries to ensure that they were able to persevere. One of her firmest friends was [[Wena Naudé]]. She died at the age of 92 on 17 August 1999.
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 Performed in ''[[The White Liars]]'', ''[[The Grand Ceremonial]]'' and in ''[[The Jewish Wife]]''.
-Ruth occupied the [[Windmill Theatre]] with her core company and staged Pirandello’s ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' in April 1955. The company of actors was led by [[Berdine Grünewald]]. Oppenheim’s company also staged Albert Camus’s ''[[Caligula]]'' with [[Stanley Coghan]]; Christopher Isherwood’s ''[[I Am a Camera]]'' with [[Tessa Laubscher]]; a season of Grand Guignol and a stage version of André Gide’s novella, ''[[The Immoralist]]'' starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[Stanley Coghan]] and [[Berdine Grünewald]].
+Ruth occupied the [[Windmill Theatre]] with her core company and staged Pirandello’s ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'' in April 1955. The company of actors was led by [[Berdine Grünewald]]. Oppenheim’s company also staged Albert Camus’s ''[[Caligula]]'' with [[Stanley Coghan]]; John Van Druten's ''[[I Am a Camera]]'' with [[Tessa Laubscher]]; a season of Grand Guignol and a stage version of André Gide’s novella, ''[[The Immoralist]]'' starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[Stanley Coghan]] and [[Berdine Grünewald]].
 In 1974 she appeared in ''[[L'Amante Anglaise]]'', with [[Raeford Daniel]] as the husband, directed by [[Rina Minervini]], as part of a double bill with a Dario Fo one-act play, for a [[Des Lindberg]] and [[Dawn Lindberg]] soiree in Johannesburg. It was done at the Doornfontein [[Arena]] as its last production before closing in November 1974.

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 Among her proteges was [[Clifford Williams]].
-She directed ''[[Spring Awakening]]'', ''[[A State of Innocence]]'' 1960,
+She directed ''[[Spring Awakening]]'', ''[[A State of Innocence]]'' 1960.
 Other productions include ''[[The Human Voice]]'' 1976. ''[[Sylvia Plath - The Woman and her Work]]''
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 == Sources ==
-[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. 78-79, 93, 152, 278, 336-337, 411.
+[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. pp 78-79, 93, 152, 278, 336-337, 411.
-Obituary by Garalt MacLiam in ''The Star'', 1 September 1999.
+Obituary by [[Garalt MacLiam]] in ''[[The Star]]'', 1 September 1999.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]