Peet van Rensburg

Full names Peet Janse van Rensburg (19**-) Director, playwright and teacher. Studied at the University of Potchefstroom for CHE , obtaining a doctorate on the directing principles of Stanislavski (Van Rensburg 1977), which has been quite widely used by Afrikaans drama students over the years. Taught drama at the Drama Department at the University of Potchefstroom for CHE for 35 years, till its closure in 198*. Then became a freelance director, adaptor and playwright. Among his works were an adaptation of Daleen Matthee's popular novel Kringe in ’n bos, a production of Amadeus for PACOFS and a widely used translations of popular plays such as Ray Cooney's Run for your Wife, under the title My Vrou se man se vrou.

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