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Revision as of 18:02, 13 June 2014
HORNE, Hannes (19**-) *** Voice artist, actor, director, drama lecturer and administrator. A protegé of Anna Neethling-Pohl, he is particularly well known for his superb vocal abilities and poetry readings over the years.
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Biography
Training
Studied Drama at the University of Pretoria Drama Department.
Career
Lecturer and later senior lecturer (19**-19**) at the University of Pretoria Drama Department. In 1980 became the director of the South West African Performing Arts Council (SWAPAC), in Windhoek. On retirement in 19**, he relocated to Cape Town where he became a part-time radio announcer for Fine Music Radio and continued his career in poetry reading.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Co-founded (with ***) and for many years directed plays for the Eersterus Performing Arts Council (EPAC) in Pretoria. Among his memorable productions for EPAC were Bartho Smit’s Bacchus in die Boland and Adam Small’s Kanna, hy kô Hystoe. At SWAPAC he inter alia produced **** and ****. His masters study at the University of Pretoria was an evaluation of the career and contribution of Anna Neethling-Pohl to South African theatre. (See Horne, 1970). He directed Vettie, Vettie! for CAPAB in 1987.
Awards, etc
Sources
CAPAB theatre pamphlet, 1987
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