Ruth Oppenheim
(1905?-1999). Actress. Performed in Human Voice, L’Amante Anglaise, White Liars, Six Characters in Search of an Author (as “Mother” with Barney Simon at the Arena Theatre), Grand Ceremonial and in The Jewish Wife.
Ruth Oppenheim occupied the Windmill Theatre with her core company and staged Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author in April 1955. The company of actors was led by Berdine Grünewald. Oppenheim’s company also staged Albert Camus’ Caligula with Stanley Coghan; Christopher Isherwood’s I Am A Camera with Tessa Laubscher; a season of Grand Guignol and a stage version of André Gide’s novella, The Immoralist starring Charles Stodel, Stanley Coghan and Berdine Grünewald.
In 1974 she appeared in L'Amante Anglaise, with Raeford Daniel as the husband, directed by Rina Minervini, as part of a double bill with a Dario Fo one-act play, for a Des Lindbergh and Dawn Lindbergh soiree in Johannesburg. It was done at the Doornfontein Arena as its last production before closing in November 1974.
In 1975 she did the same play in English for The Space (Cape Town), directed by Lindsay Reardon, with Glynn Day, Keith Grenville and Ruth Oppenheim. The stage manager was Fatima Dike.
Sources
E-mail correspondence from Rina Minervini, 7-15 March 2016.
SACD 1973, 1974, 1978/79
Tucker, 1997. 78-79.
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