Jocelyn de Bruyn
Jocelyn de Bruyn was an actor, linguist and speech teacher of spoken English, Italian and French.
(Sometimes credited as Joc. de Bruyn.)
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Biography
He received his dramatic training at the Old Vic Theatre, London and appeared there in Macbeth (1937), The King of Nowhere (Bridie, 1938) and Coriolanus (1938).
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Back in South Africa he played for the Johannesburg Repertory Society and the Munro-Inglis Company, e.g. in The Seagull in 1945.
During the 1960s and 1970s he was lecturer in English Speech and Elocution at the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department. For them he directed Exit the King (1966). He also adapted/created a few texts with the students, among them Katjie-stewels (based on Puss-in-Boots)
As actor he has appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest and The Rivals, which he also produced.
He translated a number of texts into Afrikaans, from various foreign languages. Aming them:
Friedrich Hebbel's German play Maria Magdalena, Robert Thomas's 1958 French play Huit Femmes (as Agt Vroue, 1963, 1967) and Due dozzine di rose scarlatte (1936) by Aldo De Benedetti (as Twee Dosyn Rooi Rose, 1969).
Sources
J. P. Wearing The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel[1]
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lys_van_vertalings_in_Afrikaans
The performance text of Katjie-stewels, DALRO Playscripts, 1971.
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