Peter Se-Puma

(1955-) Actor, director and playwright. *Started his career with Gibson Kente***As actor played the husband to his wife Nomsa Nene's "Poppie" in the landmark dramatization of the Elsa Joubert novel Poppie Nongena. Wrote and directed Hamba Dompas in 1986, which became popular locally and abroad. In 1988 adapted and directed Antigone to a post-Apartheid South African setting, calling it Igazi Lam (“My blood”). * SE-PUMA, Peter. His Hamba Dompas was directed by Nomsa Nene with the author and John Ledwaba at the Laager in January 1986. He starred in the Basil Rubin-Market Theatre production of Herb Gardiner’s I’m not Rappaport in 1986. He starred in Bobby Heaney’s production of Largo Desolato in 1988. He starred in Die Storm for TRUK at the Alexander in 1989. He starred in Jean Genet’s The Blacks for PACT in 1989. He starred in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman in 1992. He starred in Romeo and Juliet at the State Theatre and the Alexander in 1992.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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