Tjaart Potgieter
(1949-2007) Playwright, literary advisor, translator from English and German and director. ***
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Biography
Raised in Kimberley
Training
BA Dram UP, M Dram UCT
Career
Worked with Dieter Reible for some years in Germany. Joined PACT in 1984.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
His production of Mitzi Booysen’s The Time of the Hyena starring Elize Cawood, Pierre Knoesen and Nomhle Nkonyeni was staged at the Windybrow Theatre circa 1986 POTGIETER, Tjaart, Founder member of Glass Theatre with Chris Pretorius, 1981-1983. The Tempest, Maynardville - dir: Ken Leach; Playing with fire (Strindberg) Dieter Reible., Tjaart’s The vegetable woman or Meditations on Blake; & The Minotaur’s Sister (An adaptation of Euripides’ Hippolytos) also Aletta Bezuidenhout; 1985.
Researcher and editor for the television series Isidingo.
Awards, etc
Vita Award for contribution to Afrikaans theatre for translations of The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, The Tempest. Two DALRO Awards for the portrayal of the Minister of Culture in Die Keiser and Judge Ligt in Die Gebreekte Kruik.
Potgieter, Tjaart in `Drie Susters' (best supporting actor on the Afrikaans stage); Nominated 1993
Sources
Tucker, 1997
Beeld 25 October 2007.
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