Celia Evans

EVANS, Celia. (18*-19*) Actress, director and drama teacher. Born in England, she came to South Africa in the 1940s as part of a teacher exchange programme between Britain and South Africa. ** In 1944, she and Mary Tilley founded Children's Theatre Incorporated in Johannesburg. Evans had a firm belief in the magic of the theatre and thus supported the use of professional actors and directors, and elaborate stage settings and sophisticated stage machinery for children's theatre.

EVANS, Cecilia, The Children's Theatre registered as a company in 1945. Cecilia Evans, a devotee of the active Children’s Theatre in Britain. She started it in 1943 in JHb. 20 members, who met every 2 mnths to control & direct the policy & finances of Chil. Thtre.

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