Jo Gevers
GEVERS, Jo (19*-) Actor, director, professor of drama.
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Biography
Born and trained in Belgium. Married to Annatjie Vorster. Gevers returned to Belgium in 197* to continue teaching there.
Training
M. Dram. From University of Stellenbosch, 1964.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Came to South Africa in 196* to work with Fred Engelen and lecture at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1965 became first professor and founder of the University of the Orange Free State Drama Department.
Directed university plays but also for a variety of amateur and professional companies such as the UTB, the Shakespeare Circle and PACOFS. Among his most notable productions were Jakkalsstreke van Scapino (UTB 196*), Richard III (196*, in which he and his South African born wife Annatjie Vorster starred and he directed), Maria Stuart (196*) and Die Dubbele Adelaar (1968), Die Idioot .
After his return to Belgium he came to South Africa in 1999 to direct ** for CAPAB at the Grahamstown Festival (?*).
Awards
Received the André Huguenet Award in the Free State for his role in Richard III, 1967.
Sources
Die Koning Sterf theatre programme, 1969.
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