Difference between revisions of "Craig Higginson"

From ESAT
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 14: Line 14:
 
   
 
   
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
 +
 +
[[Beeld]] Plus, 26 July 2007.
 +
 
[[National Arts Festival]] programme, 2015, p. 75.
 
[[National Arts Festival]] programme, 2015, p. 75.
  
 
[[Stellenbosch University]] Library catalogue.
 
[[Stellenbosch University]] Library catalogue.
 
  
 
== Return to ==
 
== Return to ==

Revision as of 11:28, 14 April 2022

Craig Higginson (1971- ) is a Zimbabwe-born South African playwright, theatre director, novelist and lecturer.

Biography

He grew up in Johannesburg and studied at Wits University.

His plays have been performed and produced at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Trafalgar Studios, Theatre 503 and the Finborough Theatre (all London), the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), the Sadsteater (Stockholm), Salisbury Theatre, the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow), Live Theatre (Newcastle), Next Theatre (Chicago), the Market Theatre (Johannesburg and several other theatres and festivals around the world.

Novels include: The Hill (2005); Last Summer (2010); The Landscape Painter (2011); The Dream House (2015).

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

Plays include: Dream of the Dog (2007); The Girl in the Yellow Dress (2010); The Table (co-author, 2011); An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (2011): Little Foot (2012);

The collection Three Plays (containing : Dream of the Dog, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, The Imagined Land) was published by Wits University Press in 2016.

Sources

Beeld Plus, 26 July 2007.

National Arts Festival programme, 2015, p. 75.

Stellenbosch University Library catalogue.

Return to

Return to ESAT Personalities H

Return to South African Theatre Personalities

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page