Anna Romain Hoffman

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HOFFMAN, Anna Romain. (19**-) Director, actress and historian.** Member of Children’s Theatre Incorporated (CTI) and the Johannesburg Repertory Society.***??? As an actress worked for them as well as for professional companies. Among the plays she performed in were Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, directed by Leonard Schach (NTO, 1949), ** As a director she did James Ambrose Brown’s The Three Wishes (CTI, 1954), **. She co-wrote a history of the Johannesburg Reps with her husband Arthur Hoffmann (They Built a Theatre: The Story of the Johannesburg Repertory Society, Ad Donker: 1980). (Tucker, 1997, Hoffmann & Hoffman, 1980)

ROMAIN HOFFMAN, Anna. (19*-) Actress and theatre historian. *** A founding member of the Johannesburg Reps. Starred in Leonard Schach’s The Glass Menagerie in 1949 for the National Theatre. Also starring Nita Economides. ***In 1980 wrote They Built a Theatre: The Story of the Johannesburg Repertory Society, with her husband, Arthur Hoffman. *** (Tucker, 1997)


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