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Born in Cape Town, daughter of Sir Henry Juta and sister of  South African born artist and author[[Jan Juta]]  (1895-1990).
  
 
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
  
 
In 1909, inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910, she composed an outdoor pageant, the ''[[Masque of the Silver Trees]]'';  a neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance.  
 
In 1909, inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910, she composed an outdoor pageant, the ''[[Masque of the Silver Trees]]'';  a neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance.  

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Rene Juta (18**-) was an author and playwright.

(Her name on occasion found as René Juta)

Biography

Born in Cape Town, daughter of Sir Henry Juta and sister of South African born artist and authorJan Juta (1895-1990).

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

In 1909, inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910, she composed an outdoor pageant, the Masque of the Silver Trees; a neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance.

Sources

Peter Merrington, State of the Union: The "New Pageantry" and the Performance of Identity in North America and South Africa, 1908-1910, Journal of Literary Studies 15, nos. 1-2 (1999): 238-63.

Jan Juta. 1972. Background in Sunshine: Memories of South Africa. New York: Charles Scribner‟s Sons: p.52.

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