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== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==

Revision as of 18:16, 28 March 2016

(19**-). Actor, director, playwright.

See also rick Everett.

Biography

Training

Career

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

He did extensive work with CAPAB, PACT and NAPAC. He has performed in Boesman and Lena The Years of the Locust (CAPAB 1966) Under Milk Wood, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (with CAPAB), Puss in Boots, As You Like It (with NAPAC), The Collector (with CAPAB, played the lead), Though the Looking Glass (with NAPAC), Jane Eyre (as “Rochester”), The Eagle Has Two Heads (as “Stanislas”), Waiting for Godot (at The Centre, as “Estragon”), Hamlet (at Maynardville, as “Laertes”), The Homecoming The Merchant of Venice (as “Lorenzo” with CAPAB), Beecham at the Baxter Theatre, A New Birth at the Nico Malan Theatre.

He directed Geraldine Aron's plays Bar and Ger, Mr McConkey's Suitcase and The Shrinking of Alby Chapman in a triple bill at the Baxter Theatre Studio in 1977. He directed In the Shadow of the Mountain during the Cape Town Festival in April 1983.

He wrote the play Beyond the Pale of Water.

He was also the director of The Imps Drama Workshop.

Television work includes People are Living There, Harry's Kid, Die Perdesmous, The Green and Gold Hero.

Awards, etc

Received a Three-leaf Award for his performance as Outa in Boesman and Lena; Three Leaf Award Nomination for his role as Teddy in The Homecoming.

Sources

SACD 1973; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1979/80.

The Boxes theatre programme.

Rand Daily Mail 13 October 1977.


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