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DALTON, Joyce. (19*-) Actress. * She played the title role in Bess Finney’s production of Our Gracie at the Little Theatre in 1991.
DALY, Nigel. (19*-) Performer. *** Roles in Fiddler on the roof (CAPAB, 1985), **
DAMANE, E.M. (19*-) Playwright * Author of the Zulu plays Awutheunyelwa Gundane (“Married life is unpredictable”- 1983), Amavenge (1985), .
DANEEL, Richard. Stage and film actor and director, and well known mime-artist. ** Studied in France with Marcel Marceau. *** Productions include The Chairs (Ionesco) which he translated and directed for NTO in the NTO Kamertoneel (1959), Comoedia (a mime programme for NTO, 1960), Jean Anouilh’s Romeo and Jeanette for PACT (1963), *** Died tragically on the set of a film he was directing, when a light aircraft hit him while setting up the shot.
DANFORD, Susan. (19*-) Bilingual Afrikaans-English actress. *** Trained as a contemporary dancer and studied drama at the University of Pretoria[?*]alongside dance because she wanted to go into choreography. The decision to go into drama was not automatic or sudden, but a natural progression. *** In 1999 moved to Canada with her actor husband Stephen Jennings. They returned after 5 years and settled in the Cape in 2005. ** Roles over the years include **, ** Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2006), Her TV and film work includes series such as Arende, Sewende Laan, Known Gods, DANFORD, Susan. She starred in Janice Honeyman’s production of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times at the Windybrow in 1989. She starred in The Monkey Walk at the Richard Haines in 1994. Skandaal 2 (Deon Opperman and Lizz Meiring, 1999)
DANGOR, Achmat. (1948-) Novelist, playwright and poet. **** He was banned from 1973-1978. Winner of the Mofolo-Plomer Prize for Waiting for Leila (1981), while his poetry was published in the journals Wietie and Staffrider, anthologised in A Century of South African Poetry (1981) and published in the collection Bulldozer (1983). His plays include ***, **, and Majiet (Matjiet?) (1992??**). **
DANIEL, Raeford. (19**-2000?*). Theatre reviewer for The Star?*
DANIELS, Anthony. (19*-) Actor. * He starred in Pieter Toerien’s production of James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat is Dead, directed by Dennis Breto and also starring John Fraser in 1978.
DANIELS, Brendan. (189*-) Actor. *** Die Joseph & Mary Affair (Vleis, Rys & Aartappels, 2008),
DANIELS, Leonard. (19**) Actor. ** A member of the Trafalgar Players, Cape Town in the 1950’s. Roles in The Yearning of my Heart (a playreading, Little Theatre, Cape Town 1958), **.
DANIELS, Libby. (19**) Actress. ** A member of the CAPAB Company **.
De Wagstaffe, Baroness see Racster, Olga
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