Maralin Vanrenen

(****-****). Actress. Performed in Uproar in the House, Bedwinner (at the Hofmeyr Theatre). (SACD 1980/81)

(19*-) Actress and director. Actress and director. * Studied at the University of Cape Town Drama Department. Then joined The Space, where she performed in Dracula, The Exception and the Rule, Fragments, Futz, Gameplay, God’s Forgotten, The Happy Prince, Kennedy's Children, Kitsch, Lesson in Blood and Roses, Line/It's called the Sugar Plum, A Man Hanging, Muzeeka, Slag, Sport of my Mad Mother, Superman, Sweet Eros, Three’s Company, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore, A Touch of 1900s and What the Butler Saw. She also made her directing debut there with The Maids,

For CAPAB she directed Joggers (Aron), .

She then moved to the Transvaal. She directed Gcina Mhlope’s Have You Seen Zandile? starring Gcina Mhlope and Thembi Mtshali at the Laager in February 1986. She starred in Tobie Cronje’s production of Nunsense at the Alhambra Theatre in 1988. She directed My Plunge to Fame at the Civic Theatre in 1994. She starred in Richard Harris’s The Maintenance Man at the Leonard Rayne in 1990. She directed PACT’s annual pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Alexander Theatre in 1991. She directed Janice Honeyman’s Jack and the Beanstalk at the Market Theatre in 1993.) VANRENEN, Maralin,(Dir) Alladin: Pantomime, (Cape Flavour) Dale Cutts, Charles Comyn, Adrienne Pearce, Peter Krummeck & Jennifer Ferguson, Peter Butler, Mike Chase, Baxter, 1984. Marilyn Taylors’ musical band.

Nominee 1991 Vanrenen, Maralin in The Sleeping Beauty (Gallo Award for best performance in a musical);

Sources

Tucker, 1997

http://www.cathyspecific.co.za

http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=52471

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