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Various entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue. | Various entries in the [[NELM]] catalogue. | ||
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Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | ||
Revision as of 16:23, 7 November 2016
Robin Lake (19**-) Actor, teacher, director.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
Trained at UCT.
Career
He emigrated to Canada in his youth and lived and worked there and in the USA for many years before moving to London to take up a post as teacher/director at LAMDA. Senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town Drama Department since 1975.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Roles in The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1977), The Dresser (1980), Pray Don't, Sir George! (1983).
He has directed two Molière plays with student casts at the Little Theatre: That Scoundrel Scapin and The Would-Be Gentleman. In 1977 he diected The Misanthrope for CAPAB. He directed Line/It's called the Sugar Plum (1978), The People Never (1978), The Gin Game (1978), Separate Tables (1984) and co-directed The Dybbuk (1984).
Awards, etc
Sources
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
The Misanthrope programme notes, 1977.
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