Yvette Hutchison
Yvette Hutchison (19**-) Theatre researcher, historian and teacher.
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Biography
Born in Durban, studied Drama and English at the University of Natal (Durban), completing an B.A. Hons degree in English Literature. In 1989 moved to the University of Stellenbosch for a Masters in English and became a teacher in the Departments of English and Drama, as well as part time teaching at the nearby University of the Western Cape. In 1999 she completed a D.Phil on African theatre at the University of Stellenbosch under the supervision of Temple Hauptfleisch with a thesis entitled Memory is a weapon: the uses of history and myth in selected post-1960 Kenyan, Nigerian and South African plays" (1999), undertaking part of the research with Eckhard Breitinger at the University of Bayreuth with the help of a DAAD scholarship.
In 1999 she joined the staff of King Alfred's College, Winchester England as researcher and lecturer in drama. In 2004-5 also Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Stellenbosch.
In April 2006 she was appointed as Senior Lecturer at Warwick University, UK, and in June 2015 was promoted to Reader.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Author of ** articles and chapters in books on various aspects of African and South African theatre, co-author (with Kole Omotoso) of a collection of African plays.(Open Spaces, * ***) and frequent reviewer for various academic journals.
Became a researcher in and later co-ordinator of the Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies and a technical editor of the South African Theatre Journal (later Assistant Editor).
Author of an article called "Contemporary Collaborators II: Magnet Theatre", published in Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer and Greg Homann (editors). The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Co-compiler and -editor (with Amy Jephta) of the collection Contemporary Plays by African Women (Methuen Drama, 2019)
Awards, etc
Sources
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
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