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HOOKER, Lyn. (19**-) Actress.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
Trained at the University of Natal, Department of Speech and Drama, Durban.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in The Fourposter, The Four Poster A Murder is Announced (By Agatha Christie), Odd Man In (directed by Rex Garner), Twelfth Night (as “Viola” with CAPAB, 1969), The Cherry Orchard (as “Verya” with CAPAB), The Way of the World (as “Millament”), Antigone (with CAPAB), The Crucible, Odd Man In, Blood Wedding (as “Mother” in 1981) Devised and directed the “black” musical Mboni.
She starred in the Leonard Schach production of Robert Patrick’s Kennedy's Children together with John Higgins, Erica Rogers, John Rogers and Bess Finney for The Company at the Chelsea Theatre in 1975. Panorama (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1988), Kafka Dances (1996).
Awards, etc
Won Best Actress Award in 1975 for Kennedy's Children.
Sources
SACD 1973; 1974; 1975/76; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1981/82.
Tucker, 1997.
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