Marcel van Heerden

(****-****). Actor. Performed in ‘n Man Met Vakansie (with PACT directed by Francois Swart), Antigone (with PACT directed by Jannie Gildenhuys), Marat Sade (at the Market directed by Barney Simon), Mother Courage and in Equus. (SACD 1977/78)

(1952-) Actor for stage and film. Son of Stellenbosch director and actress Marie van Heerden. Started his drama studies at the University of Stellenbosch Department of Drama, then dropped out. Went on to become one of the first Afrikaans actors to work consistently in the anti-apartheid theatre such as The Space and The Market Theatre, as well as film and television. Among his notable stage roles were Gilgamesh, Dance Is and Tooth of Crime at The Space, Stephen Gray’s adaptation of Herman Charles Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug, Maishe Maponya’s ****, *****at the Market Theatre, *** at the Baxter Theatre **. His film and TV work include * **, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond (SABC TV 2 2000-2001), Amalia (KykNet, 2005), * VAN HEERDEN, Marcel. He starred in Barney Simon’s production of Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life together with Vanessa Cooke, Danny Keogh, Lesley Nott, Barrie Shah, Thoko Ntshinga, Bo Petersen, Sam Williams and Robin Smith for The Company at The Market, Upstairs at the Market, the Baxter and the Brooke in 1979. Starred in the Baxter Theatre production of Seer in the Suburbs, the English translation of P.G. du Plessis’ Siener in die Suburbs together with Trudie Taljaard, Bo Petersen and Dale Cutts at the Academy in 1981.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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