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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
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Other roles in ''[[The Maids]]'' (a touring production by [[The Company]]?* **, 1975/6?*) SEFTEL,  She starred in [[Jean Genet]]’s ''[[The Maids]]'' with [[Barbara Itzler]] and [[Maya Obel]]. [[Barney Simon]] directed this play for [[PACT]] at the [[Arena]] around 1971. She starred in [[Charles Marowitz]]’s ''[[A Macbeth]]'' which was staged at the [[Alexander]] in 1973. It also starred [[Siegfried Mynhardt]], [[Billy Matthews]] and [[Ken Leach]]. Together with [[McCorkindale]] she starred in [[Charles Marowitz]]’s ''[[The Shrew]]'', directed by [[Dawn Lindberg]] at the [[Chelsea Theatre]] in 1975. She won best actress for her portrayal of Kate at the 1976 [[DALRO Awards]]. She was also mayoress of Johannesburg at this stage. She starred in [[Henry Rootenberg]]’s ''[[Zeyda]]'' together with [[Nicholas Ellenbogen]] and [[Frantz Dobrowsky]] at the [[Laager]] and the [[Alexander]] in 1981. She starred in [[Susan Pam-Grant]] and [[D.J. Grant]]’s ''[[Take the Floor]]'' at the [[Laager]] in 1994.
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She has appeared in ''[[The Lady's not for Burning]]'' (1951), ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' (1952), ''[[Liliom]]'' (1953), ''[[The Anniversary]]'' (1953), ''[[The Crucible]]'' (1959), ''[[Policy for Murder]]'' (1963), ''[[The Maids]]'' ([[Phoenix Players]] 1964 and [[PACT]] 1972), ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' (1967), ''[[King Lear]]'' (1969), ''[[Hadrian the Seventh]]'' (1969), Marowitz’s ''[[A Macbeth]]'' (1973) and his ''[[The Shrew]]'' (1975), ''[[Golda]]'' (1978), ''[[Zeyda]]'' (1980-1), ''[[Camelot]]'' (1989)], ''[[Take the Floor]]'' (1994).
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Also performed in The Maids and as “Lady Macbeth” in A Macbeth. (SACD 1973)
 
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She has appeared in ''[[The Lady's not for Burning]]'' (1951), ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' (1952), ''[[Liliom]]'' (1953), ''[[The Anniversary]]'' (1953), ''[[The Crucible]]'' (1959), ''[[Policy for Murder]]'' (1963), ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'' (1967), ''[[King Lear]]'' (1969), ''[[Hadrian the Seventh]]'' (1969), Marowitz’s ''[[A Macbeth]]'' (1973) and his ''[[The Shrew]]'' (1975), ''[[Golda]]'' (1978), ''[[Zeyda]]'' (1980-1), ''[[Camelot]]'' (1989)], ''[[Take the Floor]]'' (1994).
 
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==

Revision as of 10:42, 21 March 2016

Molly Seftel (19**-). Actress.

Biography

Youth

Training

Career

A member of what Loren Kruger calls “the Jewish bohemia associated with Sophiatown”, she began her career as an amateur working for the East Rand Theatre Club. She later worked for the Johannesburg REPS and the Phoenix Players

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

She has appeared in The Lady's not for Burning (1951), The House of Bernarda Alba (1952), Liliom (1953), The Anniversary (1953), The Crucible (1959), Policy for Murder (1963), The Maids (Phoenix Players 1964 and PACT 1972), Mourning Becomes Electra (1967), King Lear (1969), Hadrian the Seventh (1969), Marowitz’s A Macbeth (1973) and his The Shrew (1975), Golda (1978), Zeyda (1980-1), Camelot (1989)], Take the Floor (1994).

Awards, etc

1976 DALRO Award best actress in English for Kate in The Shrew (Tucker 315)

Gallery Club Award winner in 1966 for Hello and Goodbye, and in 1976 for The Shrew.

Sources

SACD 1973.

Tucker, 1997.

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