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| − | [[Rene Juta]] (1877-1940) was an author, amateur actress and playwright.
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| − | (Her name on occasion found as [[René Juta]] or by [[Réné Juta]])
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| − | == Biography ==
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| − | (1877 Cape Town ‑1940) Author. René Juta was the eldest daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Juta, and sister of well known artist, designer and author Jan Juta who illustrated her guide entitled The Cape Peninsula (1910) and collaborated with her on travel books entitled Concerning Corsica (1926) and Cannes and the Hills (1928). She wrote novels entitled The Masque of the Silver Trees (1909), The Tavern (1920, based on the life of James Barry) and Jack in the Green (1935).
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| − | Born in Cape Town, the eldest daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Juta, and sister of well known artist, designer and author Jan Juta daughter of Sir Henry Juta and Lady 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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| − | She wrote a number of guides, travelogues and novels, including ''The Cape Peninsula'' (1910) , illustrated by her brother Jan Juta, who also collaborated with her on ''Concerning Corsica'' (1926) and ''Cannes and the Hills'' (1928). She wrote novels entitled ''The Tavern'' (1920, based on the life of James Barry) and ''Jack in the Green'' (1935).
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| − | She married Luke Hansard, mother of Jillian Hansard. After her divorce Hansard, she lived in the south of France where she passed away shortly after the German occupation.
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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 ''[[ The Masque of the Silver Trees]]''; a neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance. ([[ESAACH]] refers to it as "a novel").
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