Jeremy Taylor
Co-author, with Andrew Tracey and Paul Tracey, of Wait a Minim
(19*-) Teacher, guitarist, singer and actor. ** Was one of the performers in Leon Gluckman’s revue, Wait a Minim! at the Intimate Theatre in 1962. TAYLOR, Jeremy. Teacher, guitarist, singer and actor. ** He starred in Leon Gluckman’s revue, Wait a Minim! at the Intimate Theatre in 1962 with musicians Andrew and Paul Tracey, and Kendrew Lascelles. Anthony Farmer was the set designer. They toured the country for eleven months, visiting Durban’s Alhambra, Rhodesia, Cape Town, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth before returning to Johannesburg to play at the Alexander Theatre and the Colony in Hyde Park Hotel. Pieter Toerien and Basil Rubin brought him, together with Russ Conway and the American crooner Dick Haymes back to the Civic in 1967. Des and Dawn Lindberg presented his Back in Town at the Arena in 1979. He staged his one-man show Stuff at the Arena in March 1983. Roger Leclercq presented his Stuff at the Siegfried Mynhardt Theatre in 1984 until a fire destroyed the venue and the show was moved to a restaurant next door and then the Intimate. He starred in Robert Hewett’s Gulls which Keith Grenville directed in 1987/1988. He starred in Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman’s The Earl and the Pussycat at the Leonard Rayne in 1992.
Sources
Tucker, 1997
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