Elizabeth Meyer

Elizabeth Meyer (19*-). Actress.

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

She starred in Taubie Kushlick’s 1956 Christmans show, Listen to the Wind, together with Joyce Grant, Brian Proudfoot, June Hern, Maureen Adair and Philip Birkinshaw, with sets by Pamela Lewis and staged at the Library Theatre.

She starred in Leonard Schach’s production of Shaw’s Heartbreak House for PACT at the Alexander Theatre in 1967. It also starred Siegfried Mynhardt, Alec Bell, Joan Blake, Kerry Jordan, François Swart, Frank Lazarus and Maggie Soboil.

She played Jenny in Everything in the Garden (1960s), had a role in The Whole Truth and appeared as "Wendy Darling" in Peter Pan (1957). Other productions include A View from the Bridge, Seven against the Sun, The Talking Horse.

Sources

Tucker, 1997. 104, 223.

Photograph of the cast of Peter Pan held by NELM: Photograph collection [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 11. 2. 37. 5.

Material held by NELM re The Whole Truth: Photograph collection [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 3. 229.

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