Lyn Hooker

(****-****). Actress. Won Best Actress Award in 1975 for Kennedy’s Children. Performed in The Fourposter, A Murder is Anounced (By Agatha Christie), Odd Man In (directed by Rex Garner), Twelfth Night (as “Viola” with CAPAB), The Cherry Orchard (as “Verya” with CAPAB), The Way of the World (as “Millament”), Antigone (with CAPAB), The Crucible, Odd Man In, Blood Wedding (as “Mother” in 1981) Devised and directed the “black” musical Mboni. (SACD 1973) (SACD 1974) (SACD 1975/76) (SACD 1977/78) (SACD 1978/79) (SACD 1981/82)

HOOKER, Lyn. (19**-) Actress. *** Trained at the Drama Department, University of Natal, Durban. She starred in the Leonard Schach production of Robert Patrick’s Kennedy’s Children together with John Higgins, Erica Rogers, John Rogers and Bess Finney for The Company at the Chelsea Theatre in 1975. Panorama (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1988) *** (Tucker, 1997)

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