Victor Melleney
Victor Melleney (19*-) British actor, director and production manager who arrived in South Africa in 1958.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Worked for the National Theatre Organisation (NTO) from 1959-1962, and as actor. Later worked for the Performing Arts Councils, Pieter Toerien and others. Like most professionals, he also directed for amateur companies, such as the Bloemfontein Reps.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
To be edited:
Performed in There Goes the Bride, Rosebloom, Who Killed Agatha Christie (at the Academy Theatre), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( as “Ed Earl Dodd” at His Majesty's Theatre), Hello Dolly (as “Horace van der Gelder”), My Fair Lady (as “Alfred Doolittle”).
He starred in Brian Brooke’s Any Wednesday with Helen Cotterill and Vivienne Drummond for the Brooke Company in 1973. He starred in Des Lindberg and Dawn Lindberg’s production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas together with Judy Page and Annabel Linder under direction by Dawn Lindberg at His Majesty’s in 1979. He starred in the Brickhill-Burke production of Jerry Herman’s musical Hello Dolly! together with Joan Brickhill, Mike Huff, Iain Henderson, Andrea Catzel, June Hern and Charles Stodel. It was directed by Louis Burke and staged at His Majesty’s in 1980. He starred in Michael Pertwee’s Birds of Paradise at the Alhambra in 1992. Bill Flynn, The Best Little Whore House in Texas.
Birds of Paradise (Toerien, 1992), *.
Produced Mornings at Seven (1959), An Oak Fell (at the Baxter Theatre), Send for Dolly (at the Academy Theatre).
Directing credits John M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World for PACT at the Civic Theatre in 1963. He directed Lokval Vir 'n Man Alleen (Trap for a Lonely Man) for TRUK in 1963. He directed an adaptation of War and Peace at the Alexander Theatre for PACT in 1966.
To be edited: Don't tell father : presented by The Brian Brooke Company at the Brooke Theatre, directed by Victor Melleney and Brian Brooke, 1962 The Skinflint : presented by Lesie Enterprises at the Adam Leslie Theatre, directed by Victor Melleney, 1969 The best little whorehouse in Texas : a programme for the Des and Dawn Lindberg production directed by Lindsay Heard and Irene Frangs, with Judy Page, Victor Melleney and Bill Flynn in the cast, [c.1980]. Photographs of John McKelvey, Marijke Haakman, Victor Melleney and Philip Birkinshaw in `The Complaisant Lover'. Seven Against the Sun: poster advertising National Theatre production produced by Victor Melleney. Theatre programme for the PACT [Performing Arts Council Transvaal] production of War and peace directed by Victor Melleney Playboy of the Western world, an Irish comedy The Mask and the face (PACT) The Caucasian chalk circle (PACT) directed by VM Another sip of jerepigo: an entertainment based on the works of Herman Charles Bosman, dir VM 'Send for Dolly'
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1974, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82.
Tucker, 1997.
Mornings at Seven (NTO) theatre programme, 1959.
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