Jocelyn de Bruyn
Jocelyn de Bruyn (Sometimes credited as Joc. de Bruyn) (19**-**). Actor, linguist and speech trainer in spoken English, Italian and French.
He received his dramatic training at the Old Vic Theatre, London and appeared there in Macbeth (1937), The King of Nowhere (Bridie, 1938) and Coriolanus (1938)
Back in South Africa he played for the Johannesburg Repertory Society and the Munro-Inglis Company.
During the 1960s and 1970s he was lecturer in English Speech and Elocution at the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department. For them he directed Exit the King (1966)
He translated from various foreign languages into Afrikaans, including Friedrich Hebbel's German play Maria Magdalena and Robert Thomas's 1958 French play Huit Femmes (as Agt Vroue, 1963, 1967).
Sources
J. P. Wearing The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel[1]
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lys_van_vertalings_in_Afrikaans
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