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Revision as of 09:22, 25 November 2016
John Rogers (19**-). Actor, director.
Contents
Biography
Youth
Training
Trained at RADA.
Career
Worked with the National Theatre (1963), NAPAC (1965-1967) and PACT (from 1968).
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in Misalliance (with PACT in 1978), The Passion of Dracula (for Toerien/Firth in 1979), Ross (with PACT in 1979), Bodies (at the Market Theatre in 1980), The Merchant of Venice (at the Market Theatre in 1980)
He also starred in the Leonard Schach production of Kennedy's Children at the Chelsea Theatre in 1975, in a revival of Journey's End in February 1977 and in Relatively Speaking (1978).
John directed plays for the Theatre Workshop Company (Durban), including Candida (1976), A Thousand Clowns (1977), Rattle of a Simple Man (1976), Kennedy's Children (1976), One Seasons's King (1978).
He directed Ellen Terry the Harum-Scarum Girl presented by the Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1981.
He has been involved in the training of young black directors for film and television in th 1990s.
Awards, etc
He was awarded an Artes in 1996 as Best Director in a television drama for Africa PI.
Sources
SACD 1975/76; 1979/80; 1980/81.
Tucker, 1997.
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
City Press, 27 August 1995.
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