Angelique Rockas

Angelique Rockas is an stage and film actress, theatre practitioner and producer, and activist.

She has also performed under the stage name Angeliki.

Biography

Born and raised in Boksburg, South Africa, to immigrant Greek parents, she had her early education at St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls in Boksburg, Transvaal, after which she studied English literature and Philosophy, completing a BA honours degree.

She then an Performers Diploma at the Drama School of the University of Cape Town, under the direction of Robert Mohr. Among her contemporaries there were Reza de Wet,

From early on she became involved as an anti-apartheid and feminist activist, and her .

Later career in theatre, film and TV

Her London career began with performances for Theatro Technis.

In September 1980 Angelique founded the Internationalist Theatre[1] in London, aimed at pursuing an internationalist approach in its choice of plays and a multi-racial policy, seeking an even mix of performers drawn from different cultural groups. In November 1980, Rockas produced and financed a performance of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford, performing the lead part of "Annabella" herself. She would thereafter perform in several productions by Internationalist Theatre in London from 1981 to 1985, among them "Carmen" in The Balcony (Genet), "Yvette" in Brecht`s Mother Courage and Her Children and "Tatiana" in Gorky`s Enemies, Medea (1982), "Miriam" in the London premiere of Tennessee Williams`s In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel and "Julie" in Strindberg`s Miss Julie (1984).

In 1986 the theatre received charity status in England.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelique_Rockas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalist_Theatre

Personal correspondence from Sonia Hopkins (9-10 February, 2019)

Personal correspondence with Angelique Rockas(17 February, 2019)

You may also like to know that Angelique and Barbara Hogan were contemporaries at St Dominic`s Convent , that at Witz when they bumped into each other had chats. In fact it was during one of these chats that Hogan announced she was leaving going away . In a previous edit of Wikipedia all this was mentioned but was deleted as being puffery. Al so that Angelique `s passion at Witz was politics , but having seen her on the front page of the Star on a picket line, the local MP called her parents an d made an ominous comment "Mr Rockas I did`nt know that yiur daughter was a communist! " Of course she`s not but a Christian. The South African did a huge interview with her and this is the archived text On Internet Archive: [2]

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