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She has also appeared in ''[[Stop the World – I Want to Get Off]]'', ''[[Chicago]]'', ''[[Funny Peculiar]]''.
 
She has also appeared in ''[[Stop the World – I Want to Get Off]]'', ''[[Chicago]]'', ''[[Funny Peculiar]]''.
  
She co-produced and choreographed the revue ''[[Tarts]]''.
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She co-produced and choreographed the revue ''[[Tarts]]'' and choreograhed the [[Alvon Collison]] production of ''The way it was...... with Elvis and friends'' in 1978.  
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==

Latest revision as of 08:44, 7 October 2019

Claire Robins (19**-). Actress, producer, choreographer.


Biography

Born in Somerset, England.

Training

She trained at the Boston Old Vic Theatre School and the Royal Ballet School.

Career

Danced professionally in England, Spain, Portugal, France and Australia. Arrived in SA in July, 1968.

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

With extensive work in musicals and revues, Claire has appeared in numerous productions.

Performed in The Skinflint, Hair Hair, Sweet Fanny Adams, Best of Birds and Beasts with Robert Kirby, Group Hairier, Manners and Morals, Straight Up, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (as Potiphar's wife), The Way it Was, Hey Jude, The Archon (with PACT), Christian (for Brickhill/Burke), Mothers and Fathers (for Toerien/Firth), Pyjama Tops (for Toerien/Firth), Stepping Out (1985-6).

She has also appeared in Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, Chicago, Funny Peculiar.

She co-produced and choreographed the revue Tarts and choreograhed the Alvon Collison production of The way it was...... with Elvis and friends in 1978.

Awards, etc

Sources

Hair Hair programme notes, 1970(??).

SACD 1973; 1974; 1978/79; 1980/81.

Stepping Out programme notes, 1985.

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