Hermien Dommisse
(****-****). Stage, radio, screen and television actress, director, academic author, cultural activist. Also published as H. (Hermien) McCaul-Dommisse.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Stage work
She worked as an actress and director with Volksteater, as a director with the Krugersdorp Municipal Dramatic and Operatic Society (KMDOS) during the Second World War, as an actor and director for NAPAC and as an actor for CAPAB.
As a professional actress she appeared in Netnou Hoor die Kinders, Dionusia and in Plekkie in die Son, . Since she had previously also worked with the Volksteater, she played a part in familiarising Anna Neethling-Pohl with the work being done by P.P.B. Breytenbach. **
Helshoogte ("Hell's Heights" - for André Huguenet's company in the 1940s), Die Koopman van Venesië (for Fred Engelen, Little Theatre Cape Town, 1960), *
Among her other directing projects over the years have been Bluebird (Maeterlinck) for Pta Girl’s High.
Radio work
Film
Television
Cultural role
She played a crucial role in the promotion of opera as an art form in South Africa,
Author
Over the year she published a number of articles on all aspects of the performing arts, plus two books: and Voetspore ("Footsteps"), an informal auto-biographical look at her role in the evolution of the performing arts in South Africa (1996),
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Awards, etc
In 1999 she received the Fleur du Cap Lifetime Award for her contribution to the industry.
Sources
Du Toit, 1988
Inskip, 197*
SACD 1973; 1978/79; 1979/80;
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