Barrie Shah
Barrie Shah (19**-). Actress.
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Biography
Youth
Training
Career
Taught speech and drama (LTCL) in Durban.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in It’s a Colourful World (a musical revue), Saras (an original musical in which she played the lead), The Black Mikado, Godspell, The Me nobody Knows, Candide (at the Baxter Theatre), Pleasure and Repentance (at the Baxter Theatre), Cincinatti (in 1979), Call Me Woman. Did the musical composition for Melt One.
[?*A member of The Company.] Roles in The Me Nobody Knows (dir Benji Francis, 1977), Cincinatti (Barny Simon & Cast, 197*) SHAH, Barrie. She starred in the ME nobody knows, for The Company at the Market Theatre in 1977. Benjy Francis directed and it also starred Leslie Mongezi, Nomsa Nene, Leonie Hofmeyr and Jonathan Taylor. He starred in Barney Simon’s production of Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life together with Marcel van Heerden, Danny Keogh, Lesley Nott, Vanessa Cooke, Thoko Ntshinga, Bo Petersen, Sam Williams and Robin Smith for The Company at The Market, Upstairs at the Market, the Baxter and the Brooke in 1979.
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1979/80; 1980/81.
Tucker, 1997.
See Hauptfleisch and Steadman, 1984; Schwartz, 1988.
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