Peter Cazalet

CAZALET, Peter. (1934-) Highly regarded and influential designer of costumes and sets for opera, ballet and theatre. Born in Zimbabwe, he originally trained as an architect at the University of Cape Town, but gained recognition locally and overseas as a dancer, spending 13 years in the UK, finally as principal dancer for the Scottish Ballet. A broken back ending that career, he began designing ballets and returned to Cape Town in the 1970s to work for CAPAB and later Artscape as a freelance designer and later head of design. In the time he designed approximately 30 ballets, 25 operas and many plays. After 1994 he gradually began working internationally as well. Among his major productions have been the many of the Shakespeare productions done by CAPAB, Maynardville and (in 2005) the Baxter Theatre. His numerous awards include a number of Fleur du Cap and Vita awards for design. **As You Like It, Maynardville, 1984, (See: De Beer, 1995, Joyce 1999; programme Hamlet, Baxter, 2005; )

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