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Revision as of 09:45, 29 August 2024
Gisele Turner is a teacher, performer, director and playwright.
Apparently also found credited as Gisele Therese Turner or Gisèle Thérèse Turner in some sources.
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Biography
Born in England to French parents in 1950, Giselle was only 2 when she arrived in Africa. Brought up and educated in Zimbabwe, she moved to Durban in 1973 and immediately became involved with performance, teaching and creating.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In the 1980s she performed in plays like How the Other Half Loves, Franky and Raggett, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and directed I Have No! in 1984.
She started writing original scripts in 1983 when she was part of a two-member company called Handy Spandy Players geared to pre schoolers. From 1990 to 2007 she and her partner Wendy Nell wrote, directed and performed in over 30 original productions in schools in Kwa Zulu Natal. As senior script writer and director for NPO Arley's Workshop from 2002 to 2011 she was responsible for plays such as amagama amathathu, Rain, The Green Revolution'
Other plays that followed are Lucky Strike[1] (2010, runner up in the Trinity College of London International Playwriting Competition), Woof Woof (2011)[], eLimboland (Chosen as best stage play script at the Writers' Guild of SA Muse Awards, 2014), .
Began a drama studio called Gisele Turner’s Drama Studio in Escombe, KwaZulu-Natal, where she focuses on speech, drama and creative play, offering morning classes for home school learners, afternoon classes and individual lessons.
Sources
SACD 1980/81.
https://www.writelocalplayglobal.org/playwrights/turner-gisele-south-africa.html
http://news.artsmart.co.za/2014/02/gisele-turners-drama-studio.html
https://www.writelocalplayglobal.org/playwrights/turner-gisele-south-africa.html
https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/whats-on/in-limbo-and-in-search-of-secrets-1631307
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