Etienne Essery

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Etienne Essery (196*-) is a writer and actor.

Biography

As a member of the End Conscription Campaign [1], he served four months in jail in 1983. He wrote a feature film script looking at South Africa in the Seventies and Eighties.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As actor he appeared in Muthal Naidoo's plays We Three Kings (as "Whitely") and Coming Home, both in 1982.

He wrote the plays The Proxy (1994) and Downsizing Paradise (1997).

Sources

Daily News, 19 April 1994.

The Herald, 12 May 1997.

Mail & Guardian, 28 August 2008 (re jail sentence).

http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/national-orders/recipient/muthal-naidoo

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