Donald Howarth

HOWARTH, Donald.(19**-) British playwright, director and designer. ** In 1972 he came to Cape Town and wrote, directed as well as designed a number of plays for The Space, including Enemy (197*) and Scarborough (197*). He also wrote and directed Othello Slegs Blankes (197*) and wrote School Play (directed by Limpie Basson in 197*). * He wrote A Lily in Little India and Three Months Gone which PACT staged at the Alexander Theatre in 1973, starring Helen Bourne, Barbara Kinghorn and Frantz Dobrowsky. Jack Klaff starred in the latter. He directed his own play Ibchek, using characters from Ibsen and Chekhov and starring Annabel Linder, Jacqui Singer, Frantz Dobrowsky, Danny Keogh and Elaine Proctor at Upstairs at the Market in 1979. He directed Beckett’s Waiting for Godot starring John Kani, Winston Ntshona and Pieter-Dirk Uys. It was staged at the Baxter Theatre and at the Market in 1980 before leaving for the USA and Britain **** (Tucker, 1997)

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