Patricia Sanders
Patricia Sanders (19** - 2005) was a British-born South African actress, well known for her starring role as Mother Edith Anderson in the E.tv sitcom Madam and Eve, from 2001 until her death in 2005.
Performed in Strindberg Without Tears, Deathtrap (as “Helga ten Dorp” for Pieter Toerien), Adam Leslie’s Music Hall Review, Present Laughter (as “Monica” with PACT), 10 Little Indians (as “Emily Brent” for Pieter Toerien, 1979).
She starred in Uproar in the House which was staged at The Academy Theatre of Laughter in July 1967. It also starred Rex Garner, Gordon Mulholland, Hal Orlandini and Kenneth Baker. She starred in The Academy’s production of Birds of Paradise directed by Michael Pertwee together with George Korelin, Melody O’Brian and Rex Garner in 1974. She starred in Rex Garner’s production of a musical version of Not Now Darling called Once More, Darling with Erica Rogers, Derek Royle and David Morton for the Academy in 1977. She starred in A.R.Gurney Jr’s The Dining Room together with Amanda Strydom, Ralph Lawson and Gordon Mulholland with direction by Bobby Heaney at the Baxter Theatre circa 1983 and the Alhambra Theatre in 1983. Miss Skillon in See How They Run, 1988. She starred in Move Over Mrs Markham at the Alhambra Theatre in 1990. She starred in Nicholas Ellenbogen’s Nick goes Native at the Amphitheatre in 1992.
A Shot in the Dark (as Antoinette, 1962), Friends and Neighbours (as Lily Grimshaw, 1962), Woman in a Dressing Gown (as Hilda, 1962 or 1963), The Playboy of the Western World (PACT 1963), Rookery Nook (as Mrs Leverett in two productions by PACT, 1963/4 and 1980), Ladies in Retirement (1965), Uproar in the House (1968), [[Not Now, Darling]] (1968) and its musical version Once More, Darlng in the late 1970s, Chase Me Comrade (as Janet Rimmington, 1969), Birds of Paradise (1974), Deathtrap (1978-1979), Absence of a Cello (as Emma Littlewood, 1981-2), The Dining Room (1983), The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (PACT 1984), One for the Pot (1985), The Foreigner (1986), The Marriage-Go-Round (1986), Funny Peculiar (1987), See How They Run (1988), • Charley's Aunt (1988), Whodunnit? (1989), Move Over Mrs. Markham (1990), • Alibi (1990), The Old Lady's Guide to Survival (1995), Amy's View (1999), • • Patricia Sanders as the ageing grandmother, Evelyn Thomas, is intense and downright wonderful, according to a review by Mary Jordan in Business Day, 13 September 1999.
Awards, etc.
Nominee 1991 Sanders, Pat in Alibi (Margaret Inglis Award for best actress in a supporting role in English); Nominated Vita Awards Gauteng region 1999/2000 In the category Beat Support Actress for Amy’s View.
Sources
SACD 1973; 1974; 1979/80; 1980/81.
Tucker, 1997.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne 1988.
Theatre programmes of various productions.
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