Bill Curry

(****-****). Performed in Exit the King ( as “Berenger”), Deathwatch (as “Green Eyes”), Die Van Aardes van Grootoor ( as “Oota”/”Klippies”), Neighbours (as “The Man”), Don't Drink the Water (as “Kilroy”), A Flea in Her Ear (as “Poche”/”Chandebise”), The Ageing Adolescent (as “Jake Hendrickse”), The Orange Earth, Gin Game, A Lesson from Aloes and in The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI. (SACD 1978/79) (SACD 1979/80)

CURRY, Bill. (194*-) Actor and director. Born in Cape Town, studied at ***. Perhaps the first star performer from the “coloured” community in the high apartheid years, he started his career in Cape amateur theatre, playing inter alia at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg. Then joined the Space Theatre where he worked for a number of years, playing in plays such as Snowhite & the Special Branch! (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1974), In 1977 he, Chris Galloway, Dawie Malan and others formed the experimental theatre group Fringe. Info Scandals (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1979) As director he did The Riddle Machine. Over the years had roles in a wide range of local and international plays, including An Evening with Marcel Proust, Ashes, Balls, The Caretaker, Don't Drink the Water, Dracula, Drivers, Endgame, The Exception and the Rule, A Flea in her Ear, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, Futz, The Indian wants the Bronx, Line / It’s called the Sugar Plum, The Lonely Giant, Macrune’s Guevara, The Maids, Muzeeka, My Family came over with the Normans, Old King Cole, Patrick Pearse Motel, Picnic on the Battlefield, Rats, The Resistable Rise of Arturo UI, Snow White and the Special Branch, Spike, Superman and Living in Strange Lands (Tsafendas). Die Van Aardes van Grootoor (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1978). The Indian wants the Bronx was later repeated at the Market Theatre (19**), where he went on to work doing Hennie Aucamp’s Met Permissie Gesê (Market Theatre, 198*), Fugard’s A Lesson from Aloes, **, ***, ****. CURRY, Bill. He starred in Israel Horowitz’s The Indian wants the Bronx together with Michael Richard and Jonathan Rands and directed by Bobby Heaney at the Laager in 1980. He starred in Fugard’s A Lesson from Aloes together with Shelagh Holliday and Marius Weyers. It was directed by Ross Devenish and staged at Upstairs at the Market in 1980. He played Filipot in Die Huigelaar (TRUK, 1986); He starred in Jean Genet’s The Blacks for PACT in 1989, Die Keiser, also for PACT, 1992. He starred in Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena in 1993. CURRY, Bill, Bill Flynn, People are Living There, Mila Miglia. Die Van Aardes van Grootoor (1977), Hell is for Whites Only (aka ’’Beyond All Reason’’) (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1982),

Won a Best Supporting Actor Award in the mid 1960s for a performance at the Little Theatre.

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