Charles Comyn

(19**-) Actor and director

He also directed Three Courteline Comedies for The Space. Later also worked for The Market Theatre in ***, ***, for Maponya’s ** Company on ***, Pieter Toerien and Shirley Firth in It's a Boy! (1982/83) and the Baxter Theatre in Aladdin  (1984)  

Career

Was resident actor at The Space in the 1970s.

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

Performed in Annie (for Brickhill-Burke), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Cold Stone Jug (at the Baxter Theatre), The Lesson (at the Market Theatre), Angel City (at the Market Theatre), Buried Child, Marico, Moonshine and Mampoer.

Directed Cowboy Mouth, The Four Seasons (with the Baxter Company in 1981), Seer in the Suburbs Krapp's Last Tape and It's a Boy!.

For The Space, he had roles in Don't Drink the Water, A Flea in her Ear, Going to Pot, Hello Out There, Home, H.P. and Friends, The Incredible Vanishing, Lysistrata S.A., Macrune’s Guevara, McCarthy, Medea, My Husband’s wild desires almost drove me mad, Picnic on the Battlefield, The Proposal, The Riddle Machine, Sea Anchor, Treats, Tsafendas, Yesterday’s News and Zombie.

The Dybbuk (1986)

Sources

Limelight 1978/79)(Limelight 1980/81)(Limelight 1982/83)(Limelight1983/84

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