Walter Chakela
Walter Chakela (Kefuwe Walter Chakela or Kefuoe Walter Chakela, Kefoue). (19**-). Playwright, poet, theatrical director, and administrator.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Chief executive officer and artistic director of the Windybrow Centre for the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa until 2004.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Among other productions he directed Zakes Mda’s We Shall Sing for the Fatherland in 1988 and 1989 for the Soyikwa Institute and Bloke for PACT at Windybrow (1994). He directed an adaptation of Julius Caesar in 1995, The Transistor Radio, The Wheel, Bush Tale, Giants.
Became manager of PACT’s Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg in 199* and introduced the theatre festival there. *** (??)
He adapted Bessie Head's novel Maru for the stage.
He wrote the play Kweku Ananse
Awards, etc
Sources
Variou entries in the NELM catalogue.
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