Brendan Butler
Brendan Butler (19**-) is a South African playwright.
Not to be confused with the American or Irish film directors, both also known as Brendan Butler, or the South African winemaker by the same name.
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Biography
He studied literature at the University of Cape Town.
Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance
Wrote Rehearsal in Progress, a play about being a parabat during the border war, which won the Amstel Playwright of the Year[1] Special Merit Award, 1983. Though never produced, the play would provide the initial seeds for the Barney Simon workshop production of Black Dog-Inj'emnyama!, and particularly the character "Raymond" in it.
Articles
He wrote an article called "Drama in education vs the theatricality of schooling". SAADYT Journal, 5(2):4-15 (1984). .
Sources
Neil McCarthy in Irene Stephanou and Leila Henriques. 2011. The World in an Orange: Creating Theatre with Barney Simon Seven Stories Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstel_Playwright_of_the_Year_Award
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