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He is married to actress and director [[Janet Buckland]] (néé [[Janet Connor]]) and they have had three sons: Matthew, [[Daniel Buckland|Daniel]] (also an actor) and Luke.
 
He is married to actress and director [[Janet Buckland]] (néé [[Janet Connor]]) and they have had three sons: Matthew, [[Daniel Buckland|Daniel]] (also an actor) and Luke.
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In 2009, he appeared in [[Cirque du Soleil]]'s acclaimed Las Vegas production, ''[[Love]]''.
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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Besides his influential role as teacher and academic, Buckland has been a major presence in South Africa as a playwright, performer and theatre-maker
  
 
===As an actor===
 
===As an actor===
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His numerous stage performances as actor in plays by other writers include:  
 
His numerous stage performances as actor in plays by other writers include:  
  
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'''For [[CAPAB]]:'''
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''[[The Relapse]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]], 1974), ''[[Butley]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]], 1974), ''[[Oh, What a Lovely War!]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]], 1975), ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' (1977), ''[[Forty Years On]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]], 1978), ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]], 1978), ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' ([[Maynardville]], 1978), ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' ([[CAPAB]], 1980), ''[[The Lady's not for Burning]]'' ([[PACT]], 1982), ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' ([[PACT]], 1982), ''[[Savages]]'' ([[PACT]], 1982), ''[[Shrivings]]'' ([[PACT]], 1982), ''[[Monday After the Miracle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1982), ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' ([[PACT]], 1982?), ''[[Echoes of Anger]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983), ''[[Tom Jones]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983), ''[[The Entertainer]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983), ''[[The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983), ''[[The Front Page]]'' ([[PACT]], 1984), ''[[Carmilla]]'' ([[PACT]], 1984), ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1984), ''[[Bloed in die Strate]]'' ([[PACT]], 1984), ''[[Tons of Money]]'' ([[PACT]], 1984), ''[[The Runner Stumbles]]'' ([[Pieter Toerien]], 1985), ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' ([[CAPAB]], 1986), ''[[Black and White Follies]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1987), ''[[Vid. Alex]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1988), ''[[Hard Times]]'' ([[PACT]], 1989), ''[[In a Different Light]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1989),  ''[[The Good Soldier Schweik]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1990), ''[[Speed the Plow]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1990), ''[[A Doll's House]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1990), ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' ([[CAPAB]], 1993), ''[[The Unspeakable Story]]'' ([[First Physical Theatre Company]], 1995), ''[[Endgame]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1997), ''[[Wemeltong]]'' ([[KKNK]], 2001), ''[[Betrayal]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 2006), ''[[Truth in Translation]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 2006), ''[[Mistero Buffo]]'' (2010), ''[[Scrooge]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 2013), ''[[Tobacco, and the Harmful Effects Thereof]]'' ([[Fortune Cookie Theatre Company]], 2014), ''[[The Inconvenience of Wings]]'' ([[National Arts Festival]], 2016), ''[[Life and Times of Michael K]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 2021), ''[[Hamlet]]'' ([[National Arts Festival]], 2022).
  
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''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'',
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===As a playwright/performer===
  
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'''For [[Pieter Toerien]]:'''
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In 1987 he and [[Janet Buckland]] founded [[Mouthpeace Theatre]] in Johannesburg (moving it to Grahamstown in 1992), working closely with their friends [[Lionel Newton]], and director [[Lara Foot-Newton]].
  
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''[[The Runner Stumbles]]'',  
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Andrew gradually began to create his own theatre works, with a distinctive style of theatre, utilizing the techniques of physical theatre and mime to relate his poetic fantasies.
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These inlude:
  
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'''At [[Maynardville]]:''' ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (1978).
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* ''[[The Mime]]'' (dates unknown)
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* ''[[Matches]]'' (dates unknown) 
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* ''[[Stillborn]]'' (1983)
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* ''[[Touchstones]]'' (1984)
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* ''[[Pas de Deux]]'' (co-written with [[Soli Philander]], (1986)
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* ''[[No Easy Walk]]'' (1987)
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* ''[[The Ugly Noonoo]]'' (1988)
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* ''[[Between the Teeth]]'' (1990)
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* ''[[Thing?]]'' (1990)
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* ''[[Bloodstream]]'' (1992)
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* ''[[Unplucked]]'' (co-written with [[Anton Calitz]], 1994)
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* ''[[Feedback]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Human Race]]'' (1996)
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* ''[[Noisy Walk]]'' (1996)
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* ''[[The Water Juggler]]'' (1998)
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* ''[[The Well Being]]'' (1999)
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* ''[[Makana]]'' (2001)
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* ''[[Laugh the Buffalo]]'' (2013)
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* ''[[Drifting]]'' (curated with [[Rob Murray]] and [[Illka Louw,]] 2013)
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* ''[[Plunge]]'' (devised for [[Ubom!]], 2003)
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* ''[[Fuse]]'' (2004)
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* ''[[Crazy in Love]]'' (co-written with [[Rob Murray]] and [[Liezl de Kock]], 2014)
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* ''[[Unruly]]'' (co-written with [[Neil Coppen]] and [[Dylan McGarry]], 2024)
  
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With independent companies, at the [[National Arts Festival]]: ''[[Hamlet]]] (2022)
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===Film and TV work===
  
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'''For [[PACT]]:'''  ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'', ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' (1982), ''[[Savages]]'', ''[[Tom Jones]]'', ''[[Bloed in die Strate]]'' (by [[Harry Kalmer]]), ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (1984).''[[Monday After the Miracle]]'', ''[[Shrivings]]'',
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He has appeared in a number of films, among them:
  
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'''For the [[Market Theatre]]''':  David Mamet's ''[[Speed the Plow]]'' (1990), ''[[A Doll's House]]'' (1990),
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''[[Hamlet]]'' ([[SABC TV]], 1983), ''[[The Fiddler]]'', ''[[Sentinel]]'', ''[[Shot Down]]'', ''[[The Hive]]'', ''[[The Schoolmaster]]'', ''[[Dirty Games]]'', ''[[The Good Fascist]]'' and ''[[Quest for Love]]''.
  
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===As a playwright/solo performer===
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===As a director:===
  
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His directorial work includes:
  
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Andrew gradually began to create his own theatre works (including ''[[The Mime]]'', ''[[Stillborn]]'' and ''[[Matches]]'') and in 1987 he and [[Janet Buckland]] founded [[Mouthpeace Theatre]] in Johannesburg (moving it to Grahamstown in 1992), working closely with their friends [[Lionel Newton]], and director [[Lara Foot-Newton]].
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1979: ''[[Hitting Town]]''
  
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He created a distinctive style of theatre for himself, utilizing the techniques of physical theatre and mime to relate his poetic fantasies. Among his best known works are ''[[Touchstones]]'' (1984), ''[[Pas de Deux]]'', which he had co-written with [[Soli Philander]] (1986), the much-admired and multiple award-winning ''[[The Ugly Noonoo]]'' (aka ''[[The Investigation of an Ugly Noo Noo]]'', 1988/1989), ''[[Between the Teeth]]'' (1990), ''[[Bloodstream]]'' (with [[Lionel Newton]] - 1992), ''[[Dead Slugs & Strawberries]]''in 1994, ''[[Unpllucked]]'' in 1994,''[[Feedback]]'' (also with Newton, 1995), ''[[Noisy Walk]]'' (1996),  ''[[The Water Juggler]]'' /''[[The Well Being]]'' (1998), and **** (2001). ''[[Laugh the Buffalo]]'' (2013), directed by [[Janet Buckland]]; the ghost of Christmas Present in ''[[Scrooge]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 2013); 2014: ''[[Crazy in Love]]'' (with [[A Conspiracy of Clowns]])  
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1991: ''[[Take Two]]'' ([[Market Theatre]])
  
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His ''[[The Investigation of an Ugly Noo Noo]]'' was staged at the Warehouse in 1988.
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1993: ''[[The Good Person of Szechwan]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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''[[Touchstones]]'', 1984, Grahamstown Festival.  ''[[The Ugly Noo Noo]]'':  A Trilogy, [[Market Theatre]], 1989.
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1996: ''[[Sophiatown]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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He starred in David Mamet’s ''[[Speed the Plow]]'' at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1990, ''[[A Doll's House]]'' at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1990, in a return run of ''[[The Ugly Noonoo|The Ugly Noo Noo]]'' at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1991.
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1998: ''[[The Love of the Nightingale]]'' (with [[Dion van Niekerk]], [[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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===As a director:===
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2002: ''[[The Government Inspector]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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His directoirial work includes productions of ''[[Take Two]]''(1991).
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2003: ''[[The Kitchen]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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2005: ''[[Hotel Paradiso]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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2005: ''[[Hero]]'' ([[Untouchable Productions]])
  
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In 2022 he played Claudius in a production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[National Arts Festival]].
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2008: ''[[The Man Who]]'' ([[Rhodes University Drama Department]])
  
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He wrote and starred in ''[[Bloodstream]]'' circa 1992.
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2021: ''[[Weg]]''
  
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Performed in ''[[Love]]'' for Cirque du Soleil [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil] in 2009.
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== Awards, etc ==
  
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He played Hamlet for [[SATV]] in 1983.
 
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His film work includes roles in ''Shotdown'', ''The Schoolmaster'', ''Dirty Games'', ''The Good Fascist'' and ''Quest for Love''.
 
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== Awards, etc ==
 
 
Awards include the [[Standard Bank Young Artist Awards]] for Drama for ''[[Pas de Deux]]'' (1986), The Scotsman Fringe Award (Edinburgh Festival - 1995) for ''[[Feedback]]'' and several [[Vita Awards]] and the [[Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script (1989).
 
Awards include the [[Standard Bank Young Artist Awards]] for Drama for ''[[Pas de Deux]]'' (1986), The Scotsman Fringe Award (Edinburgh Festival - 1995) for ''[[Feedback]]'' and several [[Vita Awards]] and the [[Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script (1989).
  
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[[Sunday Times]], 25 July 1993.
 
[[Sunday Times]], 25 July 1993.
  
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[[CAPAB]] theatre programme, 1993 ([[ESAT Archive]])
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[[CAPAB]] theatre programme for ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'', 1993 ([[ESAT Archive]])
  
 
[[Beeld]], 12 January 1994.
 
[[Beeld]], 12 January 1994.
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[[National Arts Festival]] programme, 2000. 135.
 
[[National Arts Festival]] programme, 2000. 135.
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Rhodes Drama Review 2003. https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/drama/documents/review_2003.pdf
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

Latest revision as of 15:35, 10 August 2026

Andrew Buckland (1954-). Stage and film actor, mime, playwright and drama teacher.

Biography

Born Andrew Frederick Buckland on 4 February 1954 in Zimbabwe, where he also completed his schooling, before attending the Rhodes University Drama Department, graduating in 1979 with a BA Honours in Drama.

He became a junior lecturer at Rhodes, then joined PACT (1980-1984) as actor. In 1992 Buckland became a member of the First Physical Theatre Company and a lecturer in the Drama Department at Rhodes University. (Later senior lecturer and finally professor.)

He is married to actress and director Janet Buckland (néé Janet Connor) and they have had three sons: Matthew, Daniel (also an actor) and Luke.

In 2009, he appeared in Cirque du Soleil's acclaimed Las Vegas production, Love.

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

Besides his influential role as teacher and academic, Buckland has been a major presence in South Africa as a playwright, performer and theatre-maker

As an actor

His numerous stage performances as actor in plays by other writers include:

The Relapse (Rhodes University Drama Department, 1974), Butley (Rhodes University Drama Department, 1974), Oh, What a Lovely War! (Rhodes University Drama Department, 1975), Look Back in Anger (1977), Forty Years On (Rhodes University Drama Department, 1978), The Diary of Anne Frank (Rhodes University Drama Department, 1978), Twelfth Night (Maynardville, 1978), Romeo and Juliet (CAPAB, 1980), The Lady's not for Burning (PACT, 1982), The Importance of Being Earnest (PACT, 1982), Savages (PACT, 1982), Shrivings (PACT, 1982), Monday After the Miracle (PACT, 1982), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (PACT, 1982?), Echoes of Anger (PACT, 1983), Tom Jones (PACT, 1983), The Entertainer (PACT, 1983), The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte (PACT, 1983), The Front Page (PACT, 1984), Carmilla (PACT, 1984), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (PACT, 1984), Bloed in die Strate (PACT, 1984), Tons of Money (PACT, 1984), The Runner Stumbles (Pieter Toerien, 1985), The Comedy of Errors (CAPAB, 1986), Black and White Follies (Market Theatre, 1987), Vid. Alex (Market Theatre, 1988), Hard Times (PACT, 1989), In a Different Light (Market Theatre, 1989), The Good Soldier Schweik (Market Theatre, 1990), Speed the Plow (Market Theatre, 1990), A Doll's House (Market Theatre, 1990), Antony and Cleopatra (CAPAB, 1993), The Unspeakable Story (First Physical Theatre Company, 1995), Endgame (Market Theatre, 1997), Wemeltong (KKNK, 2001), Betrayal (Baxter Theatre, 2006), Truth in Translation (Market Theatre, 2006), Mistero Buffo (2010), Scrooge (Baxter Theatre, 2013), Tobacco, and the Harmful Effects Thereof (Fortune Cookie Theatre Company, 2014), The Inconvenience of Wings (National Arts Festival, 2016), Life and Times of Michael K (Baxter Theatre, 2021), Hamlet (National Arts Festival, 2022).

As a playwright/performer

In 1987 he and Janet Buckland founded Mouthpeace Theatre in Johannesburg (moving it to Grahamstown in 1992), working closely with their friends Lionel Newton, and director Lara Foot-Newton.

Andrew gradually began to create his own theatre works, with a distinctive style of theatre, utilizing the techniques of physical theatre and mime to relate his poetic fantasies. These inlude:

Film and TV work

He has appeared in a number of films, among them:

Hamlet (SABC TV, 1983), The Fiddler, Sentinel, Shot Down, The Hive, The Schoolmaster, Dirty Games, The Good Fascist and Quest for Love.

As a director:

His directorial work includes:

1979: Hitting Town

1991: Take Two (Market Theatre)

1993: The Good Person of Szechwan (Rhodes University Drama Department)

1996: Sophiatown (Rhodes University Drama Department)

1998: The Love of the Nightingale (with Dion van Niekerk, Rhodes University Drama Department)

2002: The Government Inspector (Rhodes University Drama Department)

2003: The Kitchen (Rhodes University Drama Department)

2005: Hotel Paradiso (Rhodes University Drama Department)

2005: Hero (Untouchable Productions)

2008: The Man Who (Rhodes University Drama Department)

2021: Weg

Awards, etc

Awards include the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards for Drama for Pas de Deux (1986), The Scotsman Fringe Award (Edinburgh Festival - 1995) for Feedback and several Vita Awards and the Fleur du Cap Award for Best New Indigenous Script (1989).

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Buckland_(playwright)

List of photographs taken by Ruphin Coudyzer of Andrew Buckland productions, submitted to ESAT in 2023.

Burger, 4 January 1978.

Limelight 1982-83

Artslink.co.za Headlines - Week 38 - 16/09/2014[1]

Sunday Times, 25 July 1993.

CAPAB theatre programme for Antony and Cleopatra, 1993 (ESAT Archive)

Beeld, 12 January 1994.

Percy Tucker 1997. Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.

National Arts Festival programme, 2000. 135.

Rhodes Drama Review 2003. https://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/drama/documents/review_2003.pdf

Go to South African Theatre/Bibliography

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