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| − | [[Rene Juta]] (18**-) was an author and playwright. | + | #REDIRECT[[Réné Juta]] |
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| − | (Her name on occasion found as [[René Juta]])
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| − | == Biography ==
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| − | Born in Cape Town, daughter of Sir Henry Juta and Helena Lena Juta (born Tait), the sister of South African born artist and author[[Jan Juta]] (1895-1990) and three other siblings.
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| − | ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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| − | 1890s: In one of the early amateur productions of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' in South Africa, she and [[Rudyard Kipling]], along with her other sisters and family servants, entertained [[Cecil John Rhodes]] by performing scenes from the play on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the 1890s.
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| − | In 1909, inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910, she composed an outdoor pageant, the ''[[Masque of the Silver Trees]]''; a neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://www.myheritage.com/names/rene_juta
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| − | [[Peter Merrington]], ''State of the Union: The "New Pageantry" and the Performance of
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| − | Identity in North America and South Africa, 1908-1910'', [[Journal of Literary Studies]] 15, nos. 1-2
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| − | (1999): 238-63.
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| − | [[Jan Juta]]. 1972. ''Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa''. New York: Charles Scribner‟s
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| − | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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