Lynette Marais

(****-****). Actress, stage manager, theatre administrator and director. She starred in Kinkels in die Kabel by André P. Brink in the 1970’s. She was the administrative head of PACT since 1982. She commissioned Janice Honeyman to adapt and direct Charles Dickens’ Hard Times for PACT in 1989. She then became the director of the Grahamstown Festival.

Performed in House of Blue Leaves, Antigone, The White Liars, Kinkels in die Kabel (1970), Erfgenaam and Troilus and Cressida. Was stage manager for PACT English drama.(SACD 1973; 1974).

Lynette Marais, Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded March 2009 (Sunday Independent, 15 March 2009)

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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