Barrie Shah
Barrie Shah (19**-). Actress.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Taught speech and drama (LTCL) in Durban.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in It's a Colourful World (a musical revue), Saras (an original musical in which she played the lead), The Black Mikado, Godspell, The Me Nobody Knows, Candide (at the Baxter Theatre), Pleasure and Repentance (at the Baxter Theatre), Call Me Woman. She did the musical composition for Melt One.
She starred in Barney Simon’s production of Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life for The Company at The Market Theatre, Upstairs at the Market, the Baxter Theatre and the Brooke Theatre in 1979.
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1979/80; 1980/81.
Tucker, 1997.
See Hauptfleisch and Steadman, 1984; Schwartz, 1988.
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