Clare Stopford

(****-****). Actress. Performed in Along Came a Spider (with CAPAB), Death of a Salesman (Rep Season), The Relapse (Rep Season), Duchess of Malfi (in 1979), Last Sting of the Dying Wasp (in 1979). Happy Birthday (for Toerien/Firth in 1980). (SACD 1979/80) (SACD 1980/81)

(19**-) Actress and director. Studied at the University of Cape Town Drama Department. * Worked at the The Space in the 1970s, acting in The Arnold Bliss Show, The Duchess of Malfi, The Final Sting of the Dying Wasp, A Flea in her Ear, Four Twins, Patty Hearst and Rape – A Revue. ** Worked for the Market Theatre on ***, gradually taking on directing projects and becoming a resident director there. Productions incude ** Also worked for PACT, notably at the Windybrow Theatre directing** and **. Other major productions as director are **, **, Romeo and Juliet (Maynardville, 200*) STOPFORD, Clare. Together with Nomhle Nkonyeni, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Nandi Nyembe and Jacqui Singer she workshopped and starred in Ulovane Jive which was the opening production of the Windybrow Theatre circa 1986. She starred in Bobby Heaney’s production of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Windybrow in 1987. She starred in Fred Abrahamse’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Market in 1989. She directed Lanford Wilson’s Burn This at Upstairs at the Market in 1989. She directed Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at Upstairs at the Market in 1990. She directed Scenes from an Execution at the Market Theatre in 1994 for which she received the Vita Award as Director of the Year jointly with Marthinus Basson.

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