Hansell Hewitt
HEWITT, Hansell (1922-1989) Scholar and lecturer of the Classics, Actor, Director.
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Biography
He was born in Cape Town on 5 April 1922 and died in Grahamstown on 5 April 1989.
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He translated Menaechmi by Palutus into English and the directed a Rhodes University Drama Department production of the play in April 1969.
He played in Tiger at the Gates, Cape Town, 1955.
He regularly acted in productions by the Rhodes University Drama Department, among others in The Diary of Iris Vaughan (1969) and Bagasie (1972).
HEWITT, Hansel. (19**-) Director of children’s plays in Cape Town ***??? In 1955 he directed a multiracial version of The Three Wishes by James Ambrose Brown for *** in Cape Town.
Awards, etc
Sources
Akroterion, 34(2), 1989.
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