Maralin Vanrenen

Maralin Vanrenen (19**-). Actress, director. === Being edited, 23 November 2021 ===

Biography

She was born in Kenilworth, Cape Town.

Training

She studied for a Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama at the University of Cape Town Drama Department, graduating in 1971.

Career

She worked for The Space since 1972 and in 1975 moved Johannesburg appearing in productions for Barney Simon and Brickhill/Burke before touring Europe and the USA to see, experience and take part in theatre.

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

She has appeared in Uproar in the House, Bedwinner (at the Hofmeyr Theatre).

At The Space she performed in Dracula, The Exception and the Rule, Fragments, Futz, Gameplay, God’s Forgotten, The Happy Prince, Kennedy's Children, Kitsch, Lesson in Blood and Roses, Line/It's Called the Sugar Plum, A Man Hanging, Muzeeka, Slag, The Sport of My Mad Mother, Superman, Sweet Eros, Three’s Company, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore, A Touch of 1900s and What the Butler Saw.

She starred in PACT's The Comedy of Errors (1985) and in Tobie Cronjé’s production of Nunsense at the Alhambra Theatre in 1988. She starred in Richard Harris’s The Maintenance Man at the Leonard Rayne in 1990.

She made her directing debut at The Space with The Maids and directed Lunatic and Lover at the People's Space in February 1982.

For CAPAB she directed Joggers (Aron) and Groucho at Large at the Baxter Theatre and National Arts Festival in 1981 and Aladdin in 1984.

She directed Gcina Mhlope’s Have You Seen Zandile? starring Gcina Mhlope and Thembi Mtshali at the Laager in February 1986.

She directed PACT’s annual pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Alexander Theatre in 1991. She directed Janice Honeyman’s Jack and the Beanstalk at the Market Theatre in 1993.

She directed My Plunge to Fame at the Civic Theatre in 1994.

Adapted and directed I Have Life: Alison's Journey, (2014, 2015), Directed Flashing Trash (1980), Murder in Green Meadows (Douglas Post) Richard Haines Theatre (1994), In Praise of Love (1995), Family Secrets (1995-1996), co-directed Visiting Mr Green (1999 and 2001), Seduced (1982), Menopause - The Musical (2007), Love, Julie (1996), Killing Time (2000), Mile High (2007), The Rain Queen and the Baobab Tree (1994),

Jack and the Beanstalk (1993-1994), directed and starred in The Sum of Us 1992, I do! I do! (1997), The Graduate (2001), A Trinity of Two, Dangerous Obsession (N.J. Crisp) (1990), Family Secrets (1995)

Wrote and directed Up 'n Atom 1983. Adapted Seven days at the Silbersteins, entitled Henry, Playscript NELM Location: [Collection: BAXTER THEATRE]: 2003. 54. 130.

Kyk ook: Aladin and his wonderful lamp, Groucho at Large, Have you seen Zandile?, Flashing Trash (deur MV?), My Plunge to Fame,

She has done television work locally and overseas.

Awards, etc

Nominee 1991 Vanrenen, Maralin in The Sleeping Beauty (Gallo Award for best performance in a musical);

She was nominated for a Three Leaf Award twice.

ward Description: Recognising the contribution of women in arts Award: MBOKODO AWARDS Award Year: 2015 MV Theatre

Nominated DALRO Award Vanrenen, Maralin in `The Sleeping Beauty' (Gallo Award for best performance in a musical) 1991, Fleur du Cap 1996 In Praise of Love

Sources

SACD 1980/81.

Nunsense programme notes, 1988.

Tucker, 1997.

http://www.cathyspecific.co.za

http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=52471

Theatre Lives interview [1].

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