Malcolm Woolfson

Malcolm Woolfson (19**-) is a performer, theatre director and marketing specialist, critic and historian.

Also known as Malcolm L. Woolfson

Contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance

A member of the of the Durban Jewish Club, he directed a number of plays for them over the years. Worked for NAPAC for a time.

He represented Natal on the editorial board of Teater/Theatre SA.

As writer

He wrote two important monographs:

• The Long Road (the history of the Natal Playhouse, 1986 - credited as Malcolm L. Woolfson)
• But the Melody Lingers On (Subtitled The inside Story of the Johannesburg Operatic and Dramatic Society-Its Shows, Personalities, Triumphs, and Tribulations, Perskor 1992).

He wrote the children's playtext Bushveld Bibble-Babble, a dramatization of ten African animal folk tales, with music composed by Fiona Bull.

As director

1960: Mkhumbane

1965: Satin and Tweed

1979: Along Came a Spider

Dates unknown: Inherit the Wind (Durban, pre-1965), Little Mary Sunshine

, Mirandolina, Oh No Alice, You Can't Take it With You, Victorian Music Box and The Boy Friend.

Sources

"WOOLFSON, Malcolm L: 1999. 113. 18. 2" - in the NELM Collection.

The Rand Daily Mail, 20 September

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