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| − | He became the life partner of [[Bill Curry]], whom he first met when Curry was a young man just beginning in Cape Town theatre. | + | He later became the life partner of [[Bill Curry]], whom he first met when Curry was a young man just beginning in Cape Town theatre. |
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Revision as of 07:19, 27 July 2015
Denis Hatfield (19**-) was a long time reviewer , arts critic, radio broadcaster, the author of a number of books on South African arts and culture and occasional publisher.
Born Denis Hatfield Bullough, he generally used the pseudonym Denis Hatfield.
He worked closely with a number of people in the arts world, most prominently with the artist, designer and author John Dronsfield in the 1940s. (See for example their joint publications[1])
He later became the life partner of Bill Curry, whom he first met when Curry was a young man just beginning in Cape Town theatre.
Contents
Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance
Publications
As publisher he was responsible for Non-Europeans Only : Thirty-six Drawings by John Dronsfield (Cape Town: Denis Bullough, 1942)
Among his own best known books on South African arts and cultural matters are:
The Work of John Dronsfield (Johannesburg: SA Architectural Record, 1944);
Satires and Verses by John Dronsfield, edited by Denis Hatfield Bullough (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1955)
Some South African Monuments Based on a series of talks broadcast by the English Service of Radio South Africa, it was edited by Hatfield and illustrated by E.A. Gundersen. (Cape Town/Johannesburg, Purnell:1967);
District Six, illustrated by Bruce Franck, with a text by George Manuel and Denis Hatfield (Cape Town, Longmans: 1967);
Cape Theatre in the 1940's: Reviews of Ballet and Drama (Cape Town/Johannesburg, Purnell: 1967).
Sources
Wits University Archive: See CURRY, Bill (AM 2788)[2]
Die Burger, 26 April 2011[3]
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