Chris Pretorius
(19**-) Director, [playwright?*] and radical theatre manager. *** In 197/8* he founded the Glasteater / Glass Theatre in Cape Town. ** Directed **, *** , The Seagull (Glass Theatre, 1982), ** PRETORIUS, Chris, Glass Theatre with Tjaart Potgieter. The Tempest, Maynardville - dir: Ken Leach; Playing with fire (Strindberg) Dieter Reible. Exit the King, (Chris Pretorius’s production of The Duchess of Malfi (Sub-titled: The eclipse of Reason)
Chris Pretorius made his directing debut with Johan van Wyk's Wieretuin at the Market Theatre in 1979. In the same year he wrote and directed Die Verlate Skoolmeisie at the Baxter. He followed with works including More Mysteries of Love, Die Saai Lewe and Don Juan or the Mysteries of Venus. He co-founded the Glass Theatre in 1983. There he wrote, directed and designed numerous productions including Faust and More Mysteries of Love II. He spent two and a half years in residence at PACT, and was responsible for Amandla Mr Fassbinder, Kaspar in Kasablankah and Via Castiglione. He did Weird Sex in Maputo before leaving for the USA, where he started an interior design business with theatre director Jill Daly, who is also his wife. After an absence of seven years, he returned to the performing world with Dark Continent at the National Arts Festival in 1999. (Source: National Arts Festival programme, 1999).
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