Lucille Gillwald

GILLWALD, Lucille. (19**-19**) Bilingual actress and director.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She played a small role in Taubie Kushlick and Brian Brooke’s production of Arnold Perl’s play Tevye and His Daughters (1966). and directed inter alia Poppie (by Elsa Joubert) for the Market Theatre and took it on a successful tour of New York and the USA. Other shows director include Nag, Generaal (1988), Curl Up and Dye (1990), In 198* she also directed Diepe Grond (Reza de Wet) for the Market. *** Directed actress Elize Cawood in Stephen Gray's Schreiner: A One Woman Play (1983, Grahamstown Festival), She played a small role in Taubie Kushlick and Brian Brooke’s production of Arnold Perl’s play Tevye and His Daughters, also starring Sadie Festenstein, Mavourneen Bryceland and Alec Bell in 1966. She later became instrumental to the workings of the Market Theatre. She directed The Glass Menagerie starring Shelagh Holliday and Lesley Nott at Upstairs at the Market in 1981. She directed Stephen Gray’s Schreiner: A One Woman Play starring Elize Cawood at the Laager in August 1983. She directed Reza de Wet’s Diepe Grond starring Dawid Minnaar, Susan Coetzer, Gys de Villiers and Doris Simula at Upstairs at the Market in 1986. Her production of Sam Shephard’s True West was staged at the Market Theatre in 1985. Her production of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was staged at the Laager in 1986. She directed Susan Pam’s Curl Up and Dye at the Black Sun in 1989.

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

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