Ricky Arden
(ARDEN, Ricky (19*-) Actor and professional director, who like many at the time also directed plays for amateur societies including the Johannesburg REPS and the Bloemfontein Repertory Society.
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Biography
He accepted a teaching post at the University of San Diego in the USA, after his wife, the model Kay Dewdney, had committed suicide.
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Productions include Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn (Johannesburg REPS , 1962), Policy for Murder (Johannesburg REPS , 1963), Adam's Rib (a revue, 1963), Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon (PACT, 1964), Bartho Smit's Man met 'n lyk om sy nek (PACT, 1966), Frank Wedekind’s The Love Potion (PACT, 1966), Travelling Light (PACT, 1966), Don't stop the carnival, Adam's Apple, According to the Evidence (PACT, Alexander Theatre, 1966). This was his last production before he left for the USA.
Directed The Rainmaker and The Rape of the Belt in ???, Barmy Days, Travelling Light (Alexander Theatre, 1966).
Awards
Sources
Tucker, 1997.
Programme of a run of Adam's Rib by Adam Leslie in 1966.
AfricaWide database
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