Terry Norton

(19**-) Actress. Born in ***, Studied drama at the University of Cape Town. Acted in The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1977) Worked for The Space in the 1970s, acting in Candaules Commissioner and Dolls (directed by Richard Grant and Michael O’Brien), *** Won the first Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Most Promising Student in 1978. Went abroad??**Returned in 198*. Roles in Faces in the Wall (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1980) "?*?" in ****, "?*?" in Born in the RSA (Simon & Co, 1985), ****, "Nora" in A Doll's House (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Actress, 1995), "Mrs Campbell" in The Elephant Man (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actress, 1998),"The Wife" in Neil McCarthy's The Great Oudoors (Fleur du Cap Theatre Award, Best Actress, 2002), ** NORTON, Terry. Together with the cast comprising Vanessa Cooke, Timmy Kwebulana, Gcina Mhlophe, Fiona Ramsay, Thoko Ntshinga and Neil McCarthy, and in collaboration with its director Barney Simon, she helped write Born in the RSA which opened at Upstairs at the Market in August 1985 before moving to the main theatre. Starred in Lanford Wilson’s Burn This at Upstairs at the Market in 1989. She starred in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden at Upstairs at the Market in 1992.

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Tucker, 1997

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