Barbara Kinghorn
Barbara Kinghorn (19*-). Actress, poet.
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Biography
She was married to Louis Ife.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Together with Christopher Galloway she starred in The Owl and the Pussycat, which was the opening production of the Academy Theatre in November 1967. It was directed by Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke.
She starred in the PACT production of Donald Howarth’s A Lily in Little India and Three Months Gone at the Alexander Theatre in 1973.
Louis Ife's comedy Till Bed Do Us Part was staged by Ife and Kinghorn at The Little Theatre in November 1973 as the opening production of the theatre. It was directed by Rex Garner and starred Ife and Kinghorn.
She starred in the Toerien-Firth Company production of The Monkey Walk together with British actor Richard Warwick, later replaced by Paul Jericco, at the Barnato in 1977.
Paradise is Closing Down (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1978) Edinburgh Festival and London.
She also performed in Three Months Gone, Uproar in the House, Back to Square One and as Clemmie in A Man and his Wife.
Awards, etc
In 1973 she won a Gallery Club Award for Best English Actress.
Sources
SACD 1973; 1974.
Tucker, 1997.
NELM catalogue.
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