Elliot Playfair
Elliot Playfair (19**-). Actor, director.
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Biography
Training
Career
He made his debut in 1929. He has acted under the direction of Bernard Shaw. He knew Noël Coward and also played with such well-known stage personalities as ivor Novello, Sir John Gielgud and Dame Sybil Thorndike. He was director of the Perth Theatre in Scotland for five years and spent 18 months as director of the Donavan Maule Theatre in Nairobi. He later became a member of CAPAB's permanent company.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Starred in Hostile Witness (in Johannesburg, 1967), Heartbreak House and The Beaux Stratagem (both for CAPAB 1967), Cape Charade or Kaatjie Kekkelbek, The Chalk Garden, Richard II, The School for Scandal, Three Cheers for President Charlie, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Suite in Three Keys, Tinker's Curse, White Horse (CAPAB 1972),
Directed The Anniversary, Candida, Hot Tiara, The Happy Journey,
Awards, etc
Sources
Candida theatre programme, 1968.
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