Robin Malan

(194*-) Trained in English and Drama at University of Stellenbosch?* ***. Taught at University of Stellenbosch?* Worked at the Space Theatre in the early 1970s, devising Workplay and directing A Phoenix too Frequent and Skyvers/Jollers for them, and acting as a judge for the one-act play competition held in 1972-3. In 1974 Malan became director of PACT Playwork. He created a symbiotic unity of theatre and education by making Theatre in Education (TIE) the basis of their work. Instead of presenting dramatized versions of literary texts prescribed to schools, the texts were use to address socio-political issues. He also directed children’s plays such as Old King Cole (written by Ken Campbell) and Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne) for the company. Management policy and rules laid down by education department led to Malan’s resignation in 1978. He then moved to Botswana to teach at **. Has written a number of books and plays, plus collections of plays. These include the hilarious skit on South African English called Ah Beg Yaws** by “Rawbone Malong”, and the collections Play Workshop (Oxford University Press, 1975), *. One of the founding editors of the short-lived theatre journal Theatre/Teater SA (197*-197*). In 199* he returned to South Africa, settling in Cape Town. ??? Junkets and Robin Malan. Junkets Publisher is a small-scale publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa, formed to publish my novel 'Rebel Angel' in 2005, in association with Snailpress. I have worked in English teaching and theatre-in-education all my life. I was artistic Director of PACT Playwork theatre-in-education company, was Assistant Head at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College in Swaziland, and ran a specialist bookshop in Mbabane, Swaziland. I have taught in the Department of Drama at Stellenbosch University and tutored in the English Department at the University of Cape Town. I now live in Cape Town, where I do volunteer work for Triangle Project and write a monthly column ‘Young Gay Guys’ for Exit newspaper. I was one of the founding editors of English Alive, am the Series Editor for the Siyagruva Series of novels for South African teens, and was awarded the Molteno Medal for lifetime service to literature by the Cape 300 Foundation. An interest in John Keats springs from the reading of virtually all the biographies, and certainly the letters, rather than from any overwhelming love of the whole of the large body of the poetry.

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