Kita Redelinghuys

(19**-19**) Actress. ****. Started out as an amateur actress, then turned proessional. Played the “coloured” mother “Bertha” to great acclaim in Lewis Sowden’s The Kimberley Train (1958), “Joan” in Shaw’s St Joan (NTO, 1959), *. Married to dramatist Bartho Smit in 19**. She later developed an alcohol problem and disappeared from the scene. Many believe Bartho Smit’s finest play, Christene, is in part based on his complex relationship with Kita.***??? *** REDELINGHUYS, Kita. (19*-19*) Actress. Die jakkalsstreke van Scapino, vertaal deur Bartho Smit, Jannie Gildenhuys (regie), Tilana Hanekom, Siegfried Mynhardt, Pieter Geldenhuys, Cobus Rossouw, Anton Grobler, Leonora Nel, Johan van Zyl, Frank Graves (dekor) Doreen Graves (kostuums), Peter Rorke (musiek gekomponeer).

Sources

Du Toit, 1988; Tucker, 1997 [TH, JH]

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