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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
He translated ''[[Menaechmi]]'' by Plautus into English and the directed a [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] production of the play in April 1969.
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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 played in ''[[Tiger at the Gates]]'', Cape Town, 1955.

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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

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).

HEWITT, Hansel. (19**-) Director of children’s plays in Cape Town ***??? In 1955 he directed a multiracial version of The Three Wishes by James Ambrose Brown for *** in Cape Town.

Awards, etc

Sources

Akroterion, 34(2), 1989.

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