Norman Coombes

(****-****). Actor and Director. Performances include King John, Case of Robert J Oppenheimer, Much Ado about Nothing, Child's Play, Dr Faustus, Magnolia Tree, Charleys’s Aunt. Directed The Nuns and Investigation into the Death of a Greek. Also worked with PACT Arena Company (SACD 1973) (SACD 1974)

COOMBES, Norman (19**-) Actor, dramatist and director. **** [As actor performed in Durban [– McMurtry], later for PACT. ********* Directed Vernon Sylvaine’s farce As Long As They’re Happy which was staged by the Durban Intimate Theatre Company for their first visit to Johannesburg in 1955. Author of A Snake in the Garden, which he directed for?* Pieter Toerien Productions?* in 1988. Winner of the Fleur du Cap Award for Best New Indigenous Script. Film credits include the 1974 Roger Moore film, Gold. COOMBES, Norman. He directed Journey’s End, for PACT at the Market Theatre in February 1977 starring himself, Dale Cutts, Frantz Dobrowsky, Richard Haines, Michael McCabe, John Rogers. He directed the PACT production of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail starring Neil McCarthy at the Alexander Theatre in February 1984. * COOMBES, Norman. The Bed SittingRoom, Cause Celebre, Annie, The Nuns (producer & Director, A Shadow of Heroes, Investigation into the death of a Greek, L’amant Anglaise, Journeys End. Argus 1979.

(Tucker, 1997)

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