Jo Gevers

GEVERS, Jo (19*-) Actor, director, professor of drama.

Biography

Born JJCG Gevers in Bree in 1932, and trained in Belgium.

M.Dram from Stellenbosch

He came to South Africa in 1964. He married Annatjie Vorster towards the end of 1965. Gevers returned to Belgium in 197* to continue teaching there.

In Memoriam, p, 37 Martieland

Training

M. Dram. From University of Stellenbosch, 1964.

Career

Came to South Africa in 1964 to work with Fred Engelen and lecture at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1965 became first professor and founder of the University of the Orange Free State Drama Department.

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

Directed university plays but also for a variety of amateur and professional companies such as the UTB, the Shakespeare Circle and PACOFS. Among his most notable productions were Jakkalsstreke van Scapino (UTB 196*), Richard III (196*, in which he and his South African born wife Annatjie Vorster starred and he directed), Maria Stuart (196*) and Die Dubbele Adelaar (1968), Die Idioot .

He had a role in the PACOFS production of Die Soldateminnaars, 1965.

After his return to Belgium he came to South Africa in 1999 to direct ** for CAPAB at the Grahamstown Festival (?*).

Awards

Received the André Huguenet Award in the Free State for his role in Richard III, 1967.

Sources

Die Koning Sterf theatre programme, 1969.

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