Molly Seftel
Molly Seftel (19**-). Actress.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
A member of what Loren Kruger calls “the Jewish bohemia associated with Sophiatown”, she began her career as an amateur working for the East Rand Theatre Club. She later worked for the Johannesburg REPS and the Phoenix Players
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Other roles in The Maids (a touring production by The Company?* **, 1975/6?*) SEFTEL, She starred in Jean Genet’s The Maids with Barbara Itzler and Maya Obel. Barney Simon directed this play for PACT at the Arena around 1971. She starred in Charles Marowitz’s A Macbeth which was staged at the Alexander in 1973. It also starred Siegfried Mynhardt, Billy Matthews and Ken Leach. Together with McCorkindale she starred in Charles Marowitz’s The Shrew, directed by Dawn Lindberg at the Chelsea Theatre in 1975. She won best actress for her portrayal of Kate at the 1976 DALRO Awards. She was also mayoress of Johannesburg at this stage. She starred in Henry Rootenberg’s Zeyda together with Nicholas Ellenbogen and Frantz Dobrowsky at the Laager and the Alexander in 1981. She starred in Susan Pam-Grant and D.J. Grant’s Take the Floor at the Laager in 1994.
Also performed in The Maids and as “Lady Macbeth” in A Macbeth. (SACD 1973)
She has appeared in The Lady's not for Burning (1951), The House of Bernarda Alba (1952), Liliom (1953), The Anniversary (1953), The Crucible (1959), Policy for Murder (1963), Mourning Becomes Electra (1967), King Lear (1969), Hadrian the Seventh (1969), Marowitz’s A Macbeth (1973) and his The Shrew (1975), Golda (1978), Zeyda (1980-1), Camelot (1989)], Take the Floor (1994).
Awards, etc
1976 DALRO Award best actress in English for Kate in The Shrew (Tucker 315)
Gallery Club Award winner in 1966 for Hello and Goodbye, and in 1976 for The Shrew.
Sources
SACD 1973.
Tucker, 1997.
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