Sandra Duncan

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(****-****). Actress. Trained at RADA, and worked in England. Performed in Let Sleeping Wives Lie, The Pay-Off, Otherwise Engaged, Getting Away With Murder, Twelfth Night (withNAPAC), Dusa Stas Fish and Vi (at the Market Theatre), Sly Fox (at the Market Theatre) and in Norman Conquests (at the Baxter Theatre). (SACD 1977/78) (SACD 1979/80)


DUNCAN, Sandra. (19*-) Actress. *** Worked for CAPAB and Pieter Toerien ?* Roles include ***, "Sarah" in The Norman Conquests (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actress, 1979), "Virginia Woolf" in Virginia (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Actress, 1984), "Mrs Manahn" in The Anastasia File (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Actress, 1987).

DUNCAN, Sandra. She starred in A.R. Gurney’s Children with Erica Rogers and Kim Braden at the Intimate Theatre in 1974. Together with Hywel Bennett she starred in Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engaged for Toerien-Firth in 1976. She starred in the Brickhill-Burke production of Alan Aykbourn’s trilogy, The Norman Conquests, separately titled Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden, at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1979 together with Jana Cilliers, Bill Flynn, Dorothy Ann Gould, Eckard Rabe and John Lesley under direction of Brian Rawlinson. She starred in the Toerien-Firth production of Andrew Davies’s Rose at the Intimate Theatre in 1980/1981. She starred in the PACT production of William Gibson’s Monday After the Miracle together with Pamela Gien with direction by François Swart at the Pretoria State Theatre and the Alexander Theatre in 1982. Michael Atkinson directed a revival of The Lady’s Not for Burning which he also starred in together with Sandra for PACT in 1982. She starred in Edna O’Brien’s Virginia together with Robert Whitehead and Yvonne Banning under direction by Bobby Heaney at Upstairs at the Market in February 1983. She starred in William Egan’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana together with Eric Flynn, Annabel Linder and Anthony James for PACT at the Alexander in 1983. She starred in The Anastasia File in 1986. She starred in Miscarriage of Murder for Pieter Toerien in 1986. She starred in Pieter Toerien’s production of Stepping Out at the Andre Huguenet in 1986. She starred in Deadly Embrace under Moira Lister’s direction at the Leonard Rayne in 1987. She played the title role in William Luce’s Lillian at Upstairs in 1988. She starred in Terrence Shank’s production of Persona at the Windybrow in May 1990. She starred in Lerner and Louwe’s Gigi at the Pretoria State Theatre in 1992. She starred in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance in 1993., DUNCAN, Sandra, Merchant of Venice – Richard Haines, dir. Ken Leach, set design: Penny Simpson; costume design: James Parker, Sand du Plessis Theatre, Aug. 1985

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