Desmond Hughes
Desmond Hughes (19**-) Director, actor, producer.
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Biography
Youth
Training
He studied at Maas-Philips in Cape Town
Career
He also taught at Maas-Philips for three years. He returned to Bloemfontein in the mid-1970s.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Among the plays he has acted in are The Crucible, Wedding of the Year, Romeo and Juliet, The Insect Comedy and Old Times.
Desmond directed The Caretaker (PACOFS 1981), Hay Fever (Bloemfontein Repertory Society 1981), The Metamorphosis (PACOFS 1982), Julius Caesar (PACOFS 1983), Arms and the Man (PACOFS 1983), Die Vryerige Spook (PACOFS 1984), Macbeth (PACOFS 1992).
For the Bloemfontein Reps he has directed The Late Edwina Black, Children of the Wolf, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds and Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi.
Awards, etc
He won the Friend Centenary Award as Best Performer in 1969/70 in Bloemfontein.
For all his productions for the Bloemfontein Reps he received the Best Producer of the Year Award.
Vita Award Free State region, Best Director Macbeth 1992, shared with William Egan.
National Vita Award for Equus, shared with Gerben Kamper, year unknown.
Sources
Hay Fever programme notes, 1981.
PACOFS theatre programme, 1992.
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