Don Maclennan

(b. 1929 - *) Academic, poet, short-story writer, dramatist and actor. Born in London but immigrated to South Africa in 1938. He was educated at the Universities of Witwatersrand and Edinburgh, and later became Professor of English at Rhodes University. He has indicated that his close interest in theatre is a direct result of his association with Athol Fugard. Founder and close associate of the Ikhwezi Players and the author of eight plays, all of which have been performed, including the one-act plays Job Mava (co-written with Ikhwezi Players, perf 1972/3, pub 1980/81) and Celebration (perf. Rhodes University 1966). As an actor he appeared in The Mind Mirror staged i.a. at** and The Space, (197*) He wrote a one-act play The Third Degree (1967), A Winter Vacation, directed by François Swart for PACT at the Arena in 1970, The Voyage of the Santiago. In 1970 he also wrote In the Dawn Wind.

Sources

Tucker, 1997, Gosher, 1988 [JH]

A Winter Vacation programme notes, 1970.

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