Zoe Randall

(19**-19**?). Actress. ***

Career

Worked for Pieter Toerien, CAPAB and other companies in Cape Town. Performed for the Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies-Marda Vanne Company which presented seasons of plays during the war years.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Played the role of the Daughter in Rollo Gamble’s production of Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1938. Performed for the Gwen ffrangçon-Davies-Marda Vanne Company between 1941 and 1946, ***. She was married to John Wright and directed some of his puppet productions. Then worked for Pieter Toerien, CAPAB and other companies in Cape Town. Plays include A Delicate Balance (1978), Tartuffe (1978), ** (19**) at the Baxter Theatre. RANDALL, Zoe. Actor who performed for the Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies-Marda Vanne Company which presented seasons of plays during the war years at the Standard Theatre. Starred in Emlyn Williams' The Wind of Heaven in 1946, together with Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies, Marda Vanne, Wensley Pithey and Sid James. She starred in Leonard Schach’s Cockpit Players production of Basil Warner’s Try for White, which opened at the Pretoria Opera House before moving to the Intimate Theatre for the remainder of their highly successful run. It also starred Nigel Hawthorne, Marjorie Gordon, Michael Turner. Joyce Grant and Fiona Fraser replaced Minna Millsten and Heather Lloyd-Jones respectively, from the Cape Town cast. She starred in the Langford-Inglis and Hymie Udwin production of Old Ladies together with Inglis and Bess Finney at the Alexander in 1971. She starred in the Baxter production of Aleksei Arbuzov’s Old-World together with John Carson and directed by Rosalie van der Gucht at the Leonard Rayne in 1984.

Awards, etc

In 2002 received a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actress in 1978, and a Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to South African theatre in 2001.

Sources

Tucker, 1997: 13, (Tucker, 1997)

Vertolkende Kunste, HSRC. 1972.

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