Michael O'Brien
Michael O'Brien (19**-). Actor, director and playwright.
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Biography
Michael was born in Kimberley.
Training
He studied Drama at the University of Cape Town Drama Department.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He worked at The Space in the 1970s, acting in Fairy Tales of New York, A Flea in her Ear, McCarthy, The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI, Sticks and Bones and The Slab Boys. In the time he and Richard Grant also co-directed Candaules Commissioner and Dolls, he co-wrote The Final Sting of the Dying Wasp and was a designer on Sticks and Bones. Together with Richard E. Grant he directed the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis starring Steven Berkoff, Henry Goodman, Fiona Ramsay and Ian Roberts at the Market Theatre in 1980. He played the role of August Strindberg in Lunatic and Lover in 1982.
Travesties (1977), A Flea in Her Ear (1978), Cold Stone Jug (1980/81), Oedipus by Ted Hughes, The Metamorphosis, Lunatic and Lover (1982),
Hamlet by William Shakespeare, painstakingly abridged by Michael O'Brien, assisted by Peter Piccolo, at the Glass Theatre, February 1982.
Awards, etc
Sources
Lunatic and Lover programme notes, 1982.
Tucker, 1997.
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