Riana Wilkens
Riana Wilkens (19**-). Actress.
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Biography
Training
BA Hons (Drama) University of Pretoria Drama Department, late 1970s.
Career
She worked for PACT 1979-1981.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As a student she played Lola in a production of Come Back, Little Sheba and performed in Bitter Lied van die Somer 1977).
In 1980 she performed in the musical Double Trouble presented by PACT Playwork.
Other roles were in Bobaas van die Boendoe (Sera Fyndraai PACT 1980), Die Onverwagte Besoeker (Swanie PACT 1980), Die Verhoor (as Jeanette PACT 1980, Hond se Gedagte (PACT 1981), She appeared in Kyk Hoe Hol Hulle! (as Ida CAPAB 1983), The Time of the Hyena (PACT 1986.
In 2009 she replaced Isadora Verwey in a production of Mis and in 2014 she appeared in Oppad.
She had a role in Die Beskermengel which was broadcast as a radio drama in 2009.
Die Koopman van Venesië, Vegetable World, The Dream Play for the Glass Theatre, 1982.
Awards, etc
Sources
Kyk Hoe Hol Hulle! theatre programme, 1983.
Sources of the various productions.
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