Patrick Curtis

Patrick Curtis, (19*-) Designer, stage- and production manager.

Biography

Career

In the 1980s he was Assistant Production Manager and designer for the Market Theatre. In 198*? became Stage Manager for the CAPAB Drama, in 1996 Production Manager for the Little Theatre (University of Cape Town) and in 200* Production Manager for the Baxter Theatre.

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

• • Pigs on Passion (1985); Die Teken (1986). Among the productions he designed for are Klaaglied vir Koos (Market Theatre, 198*), Barney Simon's Eden and Other Places (Market Theatre, 198*), Robert Kirby's Heliotrope Bouquet (CAPAB, 199*?), Top Girls (Little Theatre, 199*), The Trojan Women (Little Theatre, 199*), Athol Fugard's Valley Song (Baxter Theatre, 200*), For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Baxter Theatre, 2002), Pula (Baxter Theatre, 200*), Church Full Of Light (Baxter Theatre, 200*), Adam Small's Kanna, hy kô Hystoe (Baxter Theatre, 2003), Oom Wanja/Uncle Vanya (Baxter Theatre, 2004 - Fleur du Cap Award), Wit (Baxter Theatre, 2004), Twaalfde Nag (Oude Libertas Theatre/Baxter Theatre, 2005), Betrayal (Baxter Theatre, 2006 – Fleur du Cap), . CURTIS, Patrick (Design), FUGARD, Athol. Valley Song. Ivan Abrahams & Quanita Adams. Director: Barbara Rubin, Baxter Theatre. (2003), Amaza by Z.S. Qanqule (Artscape 2009),

Awards, etc

He won a Fleur du Cap Award for Best technical contribution in the early 2000s and was nominated in two categories in 2012.

Sources

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