James Mthoba
James Mthoba (19**-) Actor and playwright.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He worked at The Space in the 1970s, with roles in The Incredible Jungle Journey of Fenda Maria and Lysistrata S.A..
He and Mshengu devised uHlanga – The Reed for Theatre Workshop '71 in 1975, touring the country. **
Also acted for Benjy Francis in Athol Fugard’s The Blood Knot (1976), Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (Upstairs at the Market, 1976), and Mda’s We Shall Sing for the Fatherland (FUBA, 1978/9), He starred in Robert Kirby’s The Bijers Sunbird together with Sean Taylor under Robert Kirby’s direction at Upstairs at the Market in April 1986.
He has appeared in Above the Wind, Black Dog-Inj'emnyama!, Crossroads, and for the Company at the Market Theatre Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena and Karoo Grand.
He wrote and directed members of the Transvaal Association of Black Blind Adults in Mehlondini at the Laager in 1987.
He starred in Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena in 1993. ***
Awards, etc
Sources
Astbury 1979.
Schwartz, 1988.
Tucker, 1997.
Black Dog-Inj'emnyama! theatre programme.
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