Brenda Lauth
Brenda Lauth (fl 1970s-1990s). Director, playwright, singer and journalist.
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Biography
In the 1990s she was an arts columnist for The Natal Mercury.
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Directed Good Day by Emanuel Peluso (The Space, 1975), **
She directed Stop the World – I Want to Get Off at the Little Abbey Theatre, Durban, in 1985.
Directed You Might As Well Live, 1996.
Directed Something Unspoken by Tennessee Williams in the Square Space Theatre on the university campus, Durban.
She wrote and directed Portrait of Dorothy Parker in the Square Space Theatre on the university campus, Durban.
She wrote and directed Veil of Disgrace starring Belinda Harward as Maud Allen at the Hilton Drama Festival, Hilton College, Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1998.
2004: Directed African Tales with Pamela Tancsik, Zanele Mzolo and Adi Paxton at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in 2004.
Awards, etc
Nominated for Vita Award (Natal), Best director, award year 1996.
Sources
Material held by NELM: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 30. 9.
Sunday Tribune 31 December 1995; 4 July 1996.
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