Helen Houghton

Helen Houghton (19**-) is a South African theatre director and academic.

Biography

Youth

Training

She graduated from the University of Cape Town Drama Department.

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She was in the cast of The Mad Woman of Chaillot in the Little Theatre in 1951.

She directed a number of productions for the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society, including Ruddigore (1975), Iolanthe (1976 & 2004), The Pirates of Penzance (1976 & 1983), The Mikado (1977), The Sorcerer (1978 & 1990), Patience (1979), The Yeomen of the Guard (1980), The Gondoliers (1981), Princess Ida (1982), Utopia, Limited (1984), is an honorary life member of the Society and was appointed Honorary Vice President in 2013.

She directed 1066, and All That (1949), The Tempest at Maynardville and Beauty and the Beast, a Compass Productions (The Space, 1978).

Awards, etc

She won the Cape Times Theatre Award as best diretor of a play for See How They Run, award year 2005.

Sources

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

Theatre programme for the Rene Aherenson and Cecilia Sonnenberg production of The Tempest, directed by Helen Houghton, staged at the Maynardville Theatre, year unknown. (NELM: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 36. 46.)

Inskip, 1972. p.137.

Astbury 1979.

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