Andrew Botha
(19**-) Stage, set and costume designer, and director. Started his career with set designs for Hello Dolly (19**). He has since been a designer on more than a thousand projects, including The Marriage of Figaro, Camelot, Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, Little Shop of Horrors, Jesus Christ Superstar (1991), David Kramer and Taliep Petersen's Poison(*?),. He has worked in Greece, South Korea, Australia, China, Holland, Russia and Malaysia, including on Creators (for Cirque de Soleil, 200*). Created and designed the popular Queen at the Opera with Geoffrey Sutherland and Graham Scott (Durban Playhouse, 1990), followed by OPERAMania (with Packed House Productions, 2009). In 1987 he aided Stan Knight in converting the old B.G. Alexander Nurses Home hall into the Adcock-Ingram Auditorium for PACT. Did set and costume design for Gigi (PACT, 1992)
Designed for Taking Sides, 1997.
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