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[[Joan Little]] (19**- ). Speech teacher and director.
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[[Joan Little]] (19**- 2***). Speech teacher and director.
  
She directed a [[University of Natal, Department of Speech and Drama]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]'' in the late 1950s. She eventually moved to Australia.
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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She ran an Elocution Studio in Durban and later became second in command to Professor [[Elizabeth Sneddon]] at University of Natal Durban campus.
  
She ran an Elocution Studio in Durban and later became second in command to Professor [[Elizabeth Sneddon]] at University of Natal Durban campus.
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She directed a [[University of Natal, Department of Speech and Drama]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]'' in the late 1950s.  
• She appeared in a [[University of Natal, Department of Speech and Drama]] production of [[As You Like It]] as Phebe, Acted in [[A Winter Vacation]] (1969), Private Lives (1969), Richard Gush of Salem (1970),
 
 
• Assistant director [[Focus]] (1971)
 
• Directed a [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] production of [[The Owl and the Pussycat]] (1976).
 
  
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She eventually moved to Australia where she was still teaching new immigrants to speak English when she was visited by [[Helen Barnes]] in 1995.
  
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== Sources ==
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''[[The Natal Witness]]'', 29 November 2006.
  
 
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Revision as of 10:13, 18 March 2019

Joan Little (19**- 2***). Speech teacher and director.

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

She ran an Elocution Studio in Durban and later became second in command to Professor Elizabeth Sneddon at University of Natal Durban campus.

She directed a University of Natal, Department of Speech and Drama production of As You Like It in the late 1950s.

She eventually moved to Australia where she was still teaching new immigrants to speak English when she was visited by Helen Barnes in 1995.

Sources

The Natal Witness, 29 November 2006.

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