Denis Hatfield

Denis Hatfield (19**-) was a long time reviewer , arts critic, radio broadcaster, the author of a number of books on South African arts and culture and occasional publisher.

Born Denis Hatfield Bullough, he generally used the pseudonym Denis Hatfield.

He worked closely with a number of people in the arts world, most prominently with his partner, the artist, designer and author John Dronsfield in the 1940s. (See for example their joint publications[1])

He later became the life partner of actor and director Bill Curry, whom he first met when Curry was a young man just beginning in Cape Town theatre.

Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance

Publications

As publisher he was responsible for Non-Europeans Only : Thirty-six Drawings by John Dronsfield (Cape Town: Denis Bullough, 1942)

Among his own best known books on South African arts and cultural matters are:

The Work of John Dronsfield (Johannesburg: SA Architectural Record, 1944);

Satires and Verses by John Dronsfield, edited by Denis Hatfield Bullough (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1955)

Some South African Monuments Based on a series of talks broadcast by the English Service of Radio South Africa, it was edited by Hatfield and illustrated by E.A. Gundersen. (Cape Town/Johannesburg, Purnell:1967);

District Six, illustrated by Bruce Franck, with a text by George Manuel and Denis Hatfield (Cape Town, Longmans: 1967);

Cape Theatre in the 1940's: Reviews of Ballet and Drama (Cape Town/Johannesburg, Purnell: 1967).