Carel Trichardt

(19**-) Renowned and loved Afrikaans actor (stage, film and TV), director, drama lecturer and activist for performers’ rights. Born in ****. Studied drama at the Drama Department, University of Natal, Durban. Joined the NTO Youth Company in 196*[**??], later joined the PACT Youth Company, moving on to the main company in 19**. In 19** appointed lecturer in acting and film studies in the Drama Department, University of Pretoria. An activist for the rights of the actor, he was inter alia an active member and later chairman of the South African Film and Theatre Union (SAFTU), as well as chairman of the Theatre Benevolvent Fund (TBF) for a number of years. His other passion is the cause of the Afrikaans language in professional theatre and in 199* he and his wife, actress Petru Wessels, opened a small venue called Die Teaterhuisie in Pretoria, to perform Afrikaans works. Among Trichardt’s most memorable performances are …. ???****, “Oubaas Menge” in P.G. du Plessis’s award-winning Nag van Legio (1969), *** in Athol Fugard’s Dimetos (197* at The Space) **** TRICHARDT, Carel. He played Shylock in an Afrikaans translation of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Anna Neethling-Pohl, for TRUK in 1969. She starred in Die Kersietuin (Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard) directed by Robert Mohr, together with David van der Merwe, Rika Sennett and Wilan Snyman for PACT in 1979.

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Tucker, 1997

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