Lucille Gillwald

GILLWALD, Lucille. (19**-19**) Bilingual actress and director.

Career

Became a leading force in amateur theatre in Welkom in the Orange Free State in the early 1970s, working with the ***?? Society in the Ernest Oppenheimer Theatre. Turning professional she worked with Barney Simon on the “Winterveld Project”. In 198* she began to work for the Market Theatre where she became instrumental to its workings.

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

She played a small role in Taubie Kushlick and Brian Brooke’s production of Arnold Perl’s play Tevye and His Daughters (1966).

She directed inter alia Poppie (by Elsa Joubert) for the Market Theatre and took it on a successful tour of New York and the USA. Other shows director include Nag, Generaal (1988), Curl Up and Dye (1990), In 198* she also directed Diepe Grond (Reza de Wet) for the Market.

Directed actress Elize Cawood in Stephen Gray's Schreiner: A One Woman Play (1983, Grahamstown Festival) and at the Laager in August 1983. She directed The Glass Menagerie starring Shelagh Holliday and Lesley Nott at Upstairs at the Market in 1981.

She directed Reza de Wet’s Diepe Grond starring Dawid Minnaar, Susan Coetzer, Gys de Villiers and Doris Sihula at Upstairs at the Market in 1986.

Her production of Sam Shephard’s True West was staged at the Market Theatre in 1985. Her production of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea was staged at the Laager in 1986. She directed Susan Pam’s Curl Up and Dye at the Black Sun in 1989.

Home Free (The Laager, 198-), Uph'u van der Merwe [Play]; 1987.

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

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