Robin Smith

RobinSmith (19**-). Actor.

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

Worked for The Space in the 1970s, performing in Don't Drink the Water, Going to Pot, Hello Out There, Macrune’s Guevara, Magic Afternoon, Picnic on the Battlefield, The Sun King, Tsafendas, Yesterday's News and You’ll Come (chuckle) to Love Your ????? (snigger) Test.

Performed in Cincinatti – Scenes from City Life (at the Market Theatre, 1979), For Love or Money (for A.T. Productions), A Life (for Toerin/Firth), The School for Scandal (with PACT), Cold Stone Jug (at the Baxter Theatre), Panorama (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1988) **.

Appeared as Edward/Psychiatrist/Guard/Citizen/Messenger in Hellhound (an adaptation of Richard III).

Photographs taken during the production of Two Fold at the Market Theatre. Year unknown. Identified in the photographs are: Marcel van Heerden, Robin Smith, Robyn Orlin. (AfricaWide database).

He has appeared in films such as Bopha! (1994), Fools, Ordinary People and Running Riot (2006).

Awards, etc

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role; Vita Award, Transvaal, Award year 1993 for Hellhound.

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

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