Minna Millsten

Minna Millsten (19**-) was an actress and director. **

Her name is sometimes misspelled Minna Millstein

Biography

Married to designer and playwright Basil Warner.

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

Directed the Johannesburg REPS production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives in 1953, starring Marjorie Gordon. Directed Gordon Daviot’s Richard of Bordeaux which was staged by Children's Theatre at the Wits Great Hall in 1951. Impressive sets were built by her husband Basil Warner. It starred John Rutherford as Richard. She starred in Leonard Schach’s Cockpit Players production of Basil Warner’s Try for White, in Cape Town circa 1959. It later opened at the Pretoria Opera House before moving to the Intimate Theatre for the remainder of their highly successful Johannesburg run. It also starred Nigel Hawthorne, Zoë Randall, Michael Turner, Marjorie Gordon and Heather Lloyd-Jones.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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