Guy Willoughby
Guy Willoughby (1956-2009) Satirist, performer, playwright, critic, academic, journalist, lecturer, and commentator.
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Biography
Guy was maaried to Finuala Dowling.
Youth
Training
He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.
Career
Guy has taught Englsih in Cape Town since 1981. He has presented occasional comic pieces at various venues and in 1981-1982 assisted in establishing the Glass Theatre Experimental Group in Cape Town. Guy has written for the Bloody Horse, Frontline Magazine and The Argus newspaper group and was an occasional book reviewer for SABC.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He produced and directed Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost (1982) and King Lear (1984) for Milnerton High School Players.
Stage roles include The Wages of Sin / Perfidious Piecework (The Space, 1978).
His key creation as satirist has been Major Schisstirrer in productions such as Operation Offensive!.
Plays include **, **, ** and the satirical revue Spectacles.
In 2005 he wrote the libretto for the opera version of Athol Fugard's Valley Song.
Wrote the play Church Full Of Light: Kereke Ya Lesedi (2003).
Awards, etc
Sources
Operation Offensive! pamphlet.
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