Roger Dwyer
DWYER, Roger. (1941-2007) Actor and manager. ***
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Biography
Training
Trained both at the University of Cape Town and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Career
He performed extensively in the UK, and after returning to South Africa joined CAPAB. Over 15 years he performed in and directed numerous acclaimed productions. He later moved on to NAPAC where he was instrumental in establishing the Loft Theatre. At the time of the opening of the Natal Playhouse he held the position of Administration Head of Drama. Dwyer went on to become company manager for CAPAB’s English Drama Section.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In 1962 he played in Flora Stohr's production of Ann Jellicoe's The Sport of my Mad Mother at the Little Theatre and to much acclaim of South African and European audiences. At a German Student Festival he was a singled out talent along with John Mitchel/Mitchell(??*). **
Among his best known performances are in Macbeth, Arms and the Man, Julius Caesar, Miss Julie, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, as Pickering in My Fair Lady for CAPAB. He took part in productions for the Baxter Theatre and in comedies for Pieter Toerien at Theatre on the Bay.
He starred in the Baxter Theatre’s production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour in 1988. He starred in Giles Havergal’s Travels with my Aunt at the Leonard Rayne Theatre in August 1994. (See ) [FdV, TH]
He performed in Lear for Artscape, Cry, The Beloved Country, New Day and Church Full of Light.
He has directed Present Laughter, The Diary of Anne Frank, See How They Run, Boeing Boeing, Rookery Nook, Male Intellect and London Appearance.
His TV credits include Isidingo, Generations, 7de Laan, Going Up, Madam & Eve, Streaks, Die Vierde Kabinet, Fishy Feshuns and Kalahari Oasis.
Awards, etc
Twice won the coveted AA Vita Award for Best Actor.
Sources
Inskip, 197*
Things Yoy Shouldn't Say Past Midnight programme notes, 2000
Cape Times 5 April 2007
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