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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
In 1955 he directed a multiracial version of ''[[The Three Wishes]]'' by James Ambrose Brown for in Cape Town.
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In 1955 he directed a multiracial version of ''[[The Three Wishes]]'' by James Ambrose Brown in Cape Town.
  
 
He translated ''[[Menaechmi]]'' by Plautus into English and directed a [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] production of the play in April 1969.
 
He translated ''[[Menaechmi]]'' by Plautus into English and directed a [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] production of the play in April 1969.

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HEWITT, Hansell (1922-1989) Scholar and lecturer of the Classics, Actor, Director.

Biography

He was born in Cape Town on 5 April 1922 and died in Grahamstown on 5 April 1989.


Youth

Training

Career

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

In 1955 he directed a multiracial version of The Three Wishes by James Ambrose Brown in Cape Town.

He translated Menaechmi by Plautus into English and directed a Rhodes University Drama Department production of the play in April 1969.

He played in Tiger at the Gates, Cape Town, 1955.

He regularly acted in productions by the Rhodes University Drama Department, among others in The Diary of Iris Vaughan (1969) and Bagasie (1972).

Awards, etc

Sources

Akroterion, 34(2), 1989.

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