Christine le Brocq
LE BROCQ, Christine. (19*-) Actress.
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Biography
Born in Surrey, England. Her interests include travel, tennis and birdwatching.
Training
Trained at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art, London.
Career
After several years in repertory companies throughout the UK, she spent over three years at the Donovan Maule Theatre in Nairobi.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in Who Killed Santa Claus?, Darling I'm Home, The Master of Two Servants, Suddenly at Home, As I was Green, Gypsy, Grease (as “Miss Lynch” for Brickhill-Burke), Cause Célèbre, Ten Little Indians (for Pieter Toerien), Middle Age Spread (for Pieter Toerien), Rose (for Toerien-Firth Company), Send for Dolly (for A.T. Productions), Wings (at the Market Theatre).
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Key for Two, Towards Zero, Hello I'm Eight, Equus, Two Into One for Pieter Toerien, 1986.
She starred in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane together with Anthony James, Kevin Smith and Danny Keogh under Robert Whitehead’s direction at Upstairs at the Market in October 1986. ***(Tucker, 1997)
She was in PACTs productions of The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte, Savages, The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
On television she has appeared in The Villagers, Endgame, The Settlers and Not a Good Day for Dying.
Awards, etc
She won the Donald Wolfit Award at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art, London.
Sources
Two Into One programme notes, 1986.
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