Difference between revisions of "Nomhle Nkonyeni"
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Together with [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]], [[Clare Stopford]], [[Nandi Nyembe]] and [[Jacqui Singer]] she workshopped and starred in ''[[Ulovane Jive]]'' which was the opening production of the [[Windybrow Theatre]] , 1986. | Together with [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]], [[Clare Stopford]], [[Nandi Nyembe]] and [[Jacqui Singer]] she workshopped and starred in ''[[Ulovane Jive]]'' which was the opening production of the [[Windybrow Theatre]] , 1986. | ||
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She starred in [[Tjaart Potgieter]]’s production of [[Mitzi Booysen]]’s ''[[The Time of the Hyena]]'' together with [[Pierre Knoesen]] and [[Elize Cawood]] at the [[Windybrow Theatre]] circa 1986. | She starred in [[Tjaart Potgieter]]’s production of [[Mitzi Booysen]]’s ''[[The Time of the Hyena]]'' together with [[Pierre Knoesen]] and [[Elize Cawood]] at the [[Windybrow Theatre]] circa 1986. | ||
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Received a [[Naledi Theatre Awards|Naledi Theatre Award]] for Lifetime Achievement in 2005 | Received a [[Naledi Theatre Awards|Naledi Theatre Award]] for Lifetime Achievement in 2005 | ||
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[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. | [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. | ||
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''The Herald'', 12 June 2006. | ''The Herald'', 12 June 2006. | ||
Revision as of 17:26, 9 June 2015
NKONYENI, Nomhle (19**-****).Actress on stage and film, and (according to Loren Kruger, 1999, p239) the first black African woman director of literary drama in South Africa.
Contents
Biography
Training
Career
Started with the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth in the rearly 1970s. Then went to The Space in Cape Town (where her mother Elizabeth was a cleaner). Moved to the Transvaal?* and went on to become a stalwart of the Market Theatre, working with Barney Simon
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
With the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth in the early 1970s, playing “Aniko” in The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Athol Fugard.
The Last Bus – idea born while Fugard rushed after rehearsals to get them on the last bus from Schoenmakerskop to New Brighton. Friday’s Bread on Monday.
Then went to The Space in Cape Town (where her mother Elizabeth was a cleaner), to act in in Fatima Dike’s The First South African (1977, playing the mother) and Medea (197*), her first professional role.
Performed in We Shall Sing for the Fatherland (at the People’s Space and the Market Theatre), 1979.
When Rob Amato founded People’s Space, she played the “Older woman” in Zakes Mda’s The Hill (1980) ***, ***. For them also co-directed (with Rob Amato) Zakes Mda’s Dark Voices Ring (1979) Dark Voices Ring (as part of the Serpent Players with Athol Fugard at the People’s Space),
Poppie Nongena (as “Popppie” with CAPAB, 1981).
For PACT at the Windybrow Theatre, doing Ulovane Jive (1985) and The Time of the Hyena (1985)**.
Together with Aletta Bezuidenhout, Clare Stopford, Nandi Nyembe and Jacqui Singer she workshopped and starred in Ulovane Jive which was the opening production of the Windybrow Theatre , 1986.
She starred in Tjaart Potgieter’s production of Mitzi Booysen’s The Time of the Hyena together with Pierre Knoesen and Elize Cawood at the Windybrow Theatre circa 1986.
Starred in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King's Horseman in 1992.
Starred in Romeo and Juliet at the State Theatre and the Alexander in 1992.
Starred in Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena in 1993.
In 1996 she acted in Duma ka Ndlovu’s The Game.
Cupid in Tyhume, Gr Fest 2006.
Awards
Received a Naledi Theatre Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005
Sources
SACD 1981/82.
Astbury 1979.
Tucker, 1997.
Kruger 1999.
The Herald, 12 June 2006.
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