René Juta

(18**-) *** actress and author. In 1909, inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910, she composed an outdoor pageant, the Masque of the Silver Trees; a neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance.

Sources

Peter Merrington, State of the Union: The "New Pageantry" and the Performance of Identity in North America and South Africa, 1908-1910, Journal of Literary Studies 15, nos. 1-2 (1999): 238-63.

Jan Juta, Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa (New York: Charles Scribner‟s Sons, 1972), 52.

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