Lesley Nott

NOTT, Lesley (19**-) Actress, director, poet, voice trainer.

Biography

She is married to Mannie Manim

Training

She was trained at the University of Cape Town Drama School.

Career

She worked for PACT English company until the end of 1977(?).

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

For PACT: The Crucible, A Flea in her Ear (1976), Falstaff, The Rape of the Belt, Fangs 1977, Old King Cole, Lulu.

Her first performance at the Market Theatre for The Company was as Cathleen in Long Day's Journey into Night. Mothers and Fathers (together with Clive Parnell, Elizabeth Rae and Ian Winter. It was produced by Toerien-Firth and staged at the Barnato Theatre in 1980.) Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life (with Marcel van Heerden, Danny Keogh, Vanessa Cooke, Barrie Shah, Thoko Ntshinga, Bo Petersen, Sam Williams and Robin Smith for The Company at The Market, Upstairs at the Market, the Baxter and the Brooke in 1979), The Glass Menagerie (Upstairs at the Market together with Shelagh Holliday which was directed by Lucille Gillwald at Upstairs at the Market in 1981), East (1978), An Arabian Night, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (the Laager in 1986). She starred in Tom Kempinski’s Duet for One in 1994.

She assisted Athol Fugard in the direction of My Children, My Africa. She directed The Choice (1995), Molly Sweeney (1998)

Duet for One (Laager, 1994),

Hamlet (as “Gertrude”), Travesties (as “Gwendolen” at the Market Theatre), Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (as "Stas" at the Market Theatre), Brecht on Brecht (at the Market Theatre), Wings (at the Market Theatre).

Sources

Tucker, 1997

SACD 1977/78; 1978/79; 1979/80; 1981/82.

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