Charles Unwin

Charles Unwin is a South African born playwright, theatre director, journalist, painter.

Also referred to as Chas Unwin

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

In 1980 he played a lodger in the Troupe Theatre Company production of Metamorphosis at The People's Space and the Market Theatre (credited as Chas Unwin by Coudyzer).

In 1985 he wrote an experimental play, My Brother Parks, performed that year.

Publications include "Cinema of Resistance: The Other Side of the Story" (with Colin Belton, in Johan Blignaut and Martin Botha, Movies, Moguls and Mavericks: a Study of South African Cinema 1979-1991 (Showdata, 1992).

In 2012 he created Orange Book, a site responsive peformance work, and wrote a minor dissertation on the process for his Masters Degree in Theatre and Performance Practice at the University of Cape Town.

Sources

Charles Unwin. 2012. Dramatization and Philosophy in Orange Book. Explication of a Site Responsive Performance Work and its Research. An unpublished Masters dissertation, University of Cape Town.[1]

Johan Blignaut and Martin Botha. 1992. Movies, Moguls and Mavericks: A Study of South African Cinema 1979-1991. Cape Town: Showdata.

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

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