Garalt MacLiam

Garalt MacLiam (1937-2014) was a (Irish-born?) South African playwright, director, actor, author and theatre critic.

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

He was well-known as the theatre critic for The Star Tonight for many years and besides his reviews, he wrote a most useful overview of the state of South African theatre in the early 1980s. .

Plays written by him include The Indian Rope Trick and Diary of a Madman, which was adapted by MacLiam from Gogol’s short story of the same title and in which he performed in its first production.

Other plays that he wrote and directed include One Friday in Jerusalem, staged Upstairs at the Market in 1976 and Meredith's Money, staged at the Montecasino Theatre in 2005.

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

The Star, 21 October 2014.

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