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• No Why
  ''[[No Why]]'' is a play by John Whiting ()[] ...of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as mu
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• Annelie Botes
  [[Annelie Botes]] (1957-) is a novelist. ...Basson on a farm near the village of Uniondale (Cape Province), she holds a teaching degree in music (piano) from the [[University of South Africa]] (1
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• Part of Me
  ''[[Part of Me]]'' is an improvised play by [[Janine Ulfane]] (1960-). ...t Theatre, a view of life during the apartheid years through the eyes of a child, improvised with the help of an ensemble cast. The play mines the author's
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• Edmund Mhlongo
  Born in Natal, he resides in Kwa Mashu. ...[[Catalina Theatre]] from 7 to 17 July 2005 and ''[[Madame President]]'', a musical : presented by E-CAP at The [[Playhouse]] Drama Theatre, Durban, fr
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• Paul Buckby
  '''Paul Buckby''' (born circa 1965), actor on stage and television, singer, songwriter. Paul was born in Nottingham, England and settled in South Africa as a child in 1968.
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• Mephisto
  ...1936, the play chronicles the rise and impact of Nazism on the members of a theatre company. Translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker. ...las Ellenbogen]], [[Scott Sparrow]], [[Tinarie van Wyk-Loots]] and [[Emily Child]]. [[Arena Theatre]], Cape Town.
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• Brook Williams
  ...k Williams]] (1938–2005)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Williams] was a British stage, film and TV actor. Born in London, the son of actor and playwright [[Emlyn Williams]], he attended
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• Peter Ngwenya
  He was born in Soweto and lived and worked there. He died, aged 53, in May 2009. ...1988, reinforced his belief in the power of drama to develop the mind of a child.
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• Judy Ditchfield
  Born Judy Broderick circa 1963. She is married to [[Paul Ditchfield]]; they have two sons, [[Keaton Ditchfield|Kea Completed a B.A. degree in Psychology, Speech and Drama at the University of Natal, Pieterm
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• Ubuntu Bomhlaba – The Humaneness of the World
  ...ng-and-dance play workshopped by [[Smal Ndaba]] and [[Phyllis Klotz]] with a large cast at their [[Sibikwa Community Theatre Project]] in 1993. ...ond child is born and he cannot get himself to perform the painful ritual. A devastating drought strikes the village. To save the community Bhekifa and
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• Tin Bucket Drum
  ...about Nomvula, "a spirited child born with a revolutionary heart-beat into a cruel and silent dictatorship". ...eatre Award]] for best actress and best new South African script 2007, and a [[Standard Bank Ovation]] award at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] in 2010.
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• William Branford
  Born in Southampton in 1927, Branford came to South Africa as a child, went to school at St Andrew's College in Grahamstown. Married to linguist ...ica. Author of a textbook entitled ''The Elements of English'' (1967), and a number of other works on the English language and linguistics, as well as t
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• Born in the RSA
  ''[[Born in the RSA]]'' is a multilingual, workshopped play (styled a "docudrama") by [[Barney Simon]] and cast. ...State of Emergency by then President P.W. Botha in July 1985, it presents a cross-section of characters living in South Africa during that time, at the
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• The Initials
  ''[[The Initials]]'' is a drama in two acts by an unknown playwright. ...where the Irish-born authoress then lived, it was a tale of suspense with a happy dénouement about two contrasting German sisters. The novel became hi
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• Khanyisile Mbongwa
  [[Khanyisile Mbongwa]] (1984-) is a Cape Town-based artist and curator. Born in Gugulethu, she trained as an artist and focuses on performance-based pra
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• Mabel Rushton
  ...ess [[June Langley]] and author/fashion historian Doris Langley Moore) and a son who died in 1933.
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• Miriam Margolyes
  [[Miriam Margolyes]] (1941-) is a British born actress. ...95), a Scottish physician from the Gorbals area of Glasgow. She grew up in a Jewish family, with ancestors who moved to the UK from Belarus and Poland.
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• Will Bernard
  ...s to him in other sources refer to him as '''[[William H. Bernard]]''' and a 1903 photograph of him by the Australian photographic studio Talma and Co. ...Africa with the [[Chambers Theatre Company]] in 1890, their daughter being born in Port Elizabeth in that year.
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• Patti Slavin
  [[Patti Slavin]] (19**-2016) is a South African costume and set designer. Born Patricia Doris Slavin, but best known professionally as [[Patti Slavin]], t
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• Peter Voges
  Born in Cape Town circa 1937, he grew up in Bishop Lavis He was a lecturer of music and drama and former and a founding member of [[SAADYT]]
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• L'Enfant de la Maison
  ''[[L'Enfant de la Maison]]'' is a French [[vaudeville]] in one act by Charles Victor Varin (1798-1869)[https ...use") by Willem Färber (probably Eloi Willem Färber, born 1832). The name is wrongly spelled "W. Farber" in some sources.
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• Ga-Mchangani
  ...first performed in 1998. (''Ga-Mchangani'' means "among the Shangaans" - a prejudicial term for Tsonga people.) ...dreams are shattered and his hopes end in tatters. ''[[Ga-Mchangani]]'' is a journey of laughter and tears as we follow the tragic-comic life of Mchanga
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• Feela Sistah Spoken Word Collective
  ...d spirits of black women today. What has emerged from this bold initiative is an ever-expanding community of individuals who are drawn to conscious, crit ...literature. In "Every Child, My Child", Mashile envelopes the audience in a rhythmic play on words while calling for social responsibility. In "Hey Bla
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• Michael McGovern
  [[Michael McGovern]] (1934- ) is a London-born South African actor and performer. He was a member of the [[Cockpit Players]] between 1958 and 1962. When the Cockpit P
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• Jeremy Crutchley
  ...n stage and screen actor who studied, lived and worked in South Africa for a time, before moving to Los Angeles. Born in Yorkshire of a Welsh family and grew up in Kent, Scotland and Lancashire. The family even
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• Ada Edney
  ...hed in Batavia at the time, Tom and Eileen Melbourne and Ada Edney offered a reward for the return of three lost music books. ...had turned to vaudeville and was popularly known as “The Singing Parson”. A newspaper published in New South Wales referred to her as "the charming Aus
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• Charon Williams-Ros
  [[Charon Williams-Ros]] (fl 1992-2023) is a writer, teacher and multi-award-winning actor/singer Born in the UK to theatrical parents, she moved to South Africa as a child.
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• Zoli Marki
  Zoli Marki (b. Kirkwood, 18/10/1957) is an actress. Also credited as Zoli Markey and Zoli Markie. ...own]]'' (1990), but in 2013 she turned up in a small role in an episode of a long-running British docudrama series called ''Fast, Furious and Busted'' (
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• Michael Picardie
  [[Michael Picardie]] (1936-) is a South African born academic, actor and playwright. ...in social work at Liverpool University (1965) and completed an MA based on a dissertation on aspects of psychiatric social work from Leicester Universit
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• Jody Abrahams
  Born in Cape Town, where he grew up with his grandparents. He matriculated from ...tre as a child, and had his first role at the age of seven, with a line in a production of ''[[The Threepenny Opera|The Ha’Penny Opera]]''.
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• Tromp Terre'Blanche
  ...1974. [[South African Idols]] finalist and musician Jacques Terre’Blanche is their grandson.
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• Cecilia du Toit
  [[Cecilia du Toit]] (1952-) is an academic, lecturer, author and playwright. Born Cecilia Magdalena Schoeman born in Pretoria. She grew up in Bloemfontein and matriculated in Pretoria. She
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• Cedric Sundström
  [[Cedric Sundström]] (1951-) is a film director and screenwriter.
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• LaVerne Burden
  ...ot surprising that the 1944 yearbook predicted that her destination lay in a singing career. ...today, but in April 1951 the BBC Home Service presented LaVerne Burden in a programme in which she sang the songs of Richard Rodgers and fortuitously t
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• Paul du Toit
  ...heatrical family (his mother wrote and produced musicals), he started as a child actor in local productions. He completed his Drama Honours degree at [[Stel ...adian wife, Clair, and their two sons, where they settled in Vancouver. It is his intention to work in South Africa as often as possible.
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• Joey Wishnia
  ...as a child in 1942. He was educated at [[Rhodes University]] and received a teaching diploma from Trinity College in London. He joined the professional ...''[[Whose Life is it Anyway?]]'', ''[[Who Saw Him Die?]]'', ''[[Roar Like a Dove]]'', ''[[The Three Little Pigs]]'', ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', ''[[Woyzec
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• Sorrows and Rejoicings
  '''''Sorrows and Rejoicings''''' is 2001 a play by [[Athol Fugard]]. First published by Theatre Communications Group, ...an cast, and in April-June at the [[Mark Taper Forum]] in Los Angeles with a change in cast.
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• Mark Graham
  [[Mark Graham]] (19**-) is a South African actor, drama lecturer, director and life coach. ...eer as an actor and director with [[CAPAB]] (1984 to 1987) and then became a Resident Director for [[NAPAC]]'s [[Loft Theatre]] and Drama Companies in D
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• Lebogang Mashile
  Born to exiled South African parents in the United States of America in 1979. Th ...e of its kind in South Africa. In 2004 they created and performed ''[[This is Not An Intellectual Experience]]''.
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• Ismail Mahomed
  '''Ismail Mahomed''' (19*-) is a South African playwright, director and arts administrator. Born in Lenasia and grew up there.
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• Theatre Guild
  There were at least four companies which went by a name including the phrase "'''[[Theatre Guild]]'''" ''There is currently still some confusion in the records about the differences between
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• Peter Prowse
  ...he Long Sunset'', both at the Mermaid Theatre (1961). He also appeared in a number of films and television plays, though seldom in major roles. These ...s]]'' (1973) at the [[Blue Fox Restaurant Theatre]]. In 1966 he presented a revue called ''[[Folk-Trek]]'' at the [[Intimate Theatre]], which featured
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• Saths Cooper
  Born [[Sathasivian Cooper]] on 11 December 1950 in Durban. He was the eldest child of Alimal and Appasamy Cooper. ...astri College, Durban in 1967 and the following year, he enrolled for a B. A. degree at the at the University College - an affiliate of the University o
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• Dewar McCormack
  ...and. It was at this time that he started his radio career, which included a role as Albert, the Prince Consort, in the series ''Victoriana''. ...was sent to Cape Town as English Programme Organiser and quickly built up a reputation as documentary producer and interviewer. In this capacity he tr
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• Louis Henri Meurant
  [[Louis Henri Meurant]] (1812 - 1893) was a journalist, printer, magistrate, parliamentarian, actor, playwright and l ...in Cape Town to a Swiss immigrant father, (possibly [[L. Meurant]]?), and a British immigrant mother. [[Miss L.E. Meurant]] was possibly his sister. Or
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• Itumeleng Wa-Lehure
  [[Itumeleng Wa-Lehure]] (1963-) is an actor, playwright, director and manager. Born in Cape Town, 19 February 1963. His passion for drama started when he atten
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• Diane Wilson
  [[Diane Wilson]] (1941- ) is a stage, film, radio and TV actress and director. She was born in Pietermaritsburg,
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• Paul Boekkooi
  ...i Trio and -Quartet, playing not only the French horn, but also a “zink’’ (a Medieval trumpet-like wooden instrument) and various percussion instruments Paul is married to pianist, musical director, composer/arranger and writer Dr. [[Re
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• The Braziers
  ...ply as '''[[Mrs Brazier]]''', and later their son, '''[[Fred Brazier]]''' (born 1863). ...atre Royal, Cape Town, on 13 May and lasting till 14 November, followed by a short season Port Elizabeth, before returning to Cape Town for another few
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• Craig Curtis
  [[Craig Curtis]] (1949-) is an architect, actor, director and set designer. ...the son of theatrical parents, he appeared in a number of productions as a child actor.
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• Bo Petersen
  [[Bo Petersen]] (1955-) is a versatile actress, singer, dancer and director. ''She is often incorrectly credited as '''Bo Peterson'''''
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• Marlene Zwiegers
  [[Marlene Zwiegers]] (1962-) is an actor, director, playwright, teacher and theatre manager. ...red for a PhD in Drama at the [[University of the Free State]], entitled ''A Narrative Journey with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Effect o
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• Chris Weare
  Born Christopher Weare. ...He retired in **. He is also the founder of the [[Intimate Theatre]], and a founding member of [[The Mechanicals]] Collective.
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• Chris Vorster
  He is mentioned as a member of the cast of [[Uys Krige]]'s ''[[Die Ongeskrewe Stuk (’n Impromp ...s at the University of Stellenbosch, obtaining a B.Dram-degree followed by a M.Dram-degree in Directing. During the course of his studies he began writi
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• Hilda Attenboro
  ...(b. England, 21/08/1896? - d. New South Wales, **/02/1967?) was a British-born actress, resident in South Africa and Australia. Also credited as Hilda At ...d been living together as husband and wife and were reported to have had a child together.
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• Darryl Nel
  [[Darryl Nel]] (1972-) is a theatre producer, director, actor, writer and composer, and an arts educato ..., before moving to Cape Town, where he lived for several years, working as a teacher and actor (1994-1998).
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• George R. Montford
  ...ntford''' (b. Boscombe, Bournemouth, 07/08/1877 - Durban, 27/02/1940) was a stage actor and producer. ...uman Hearts]]''. The following year he returned to England, touring with a repertory company in plays like ''[[The Christian]]'', ''[[Samson]]'' and e
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• L'Alouette
  ''[[L'Alouette]]'' ("the lark") is a French one act play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)[https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...rned at the stake on 30th May 1431, her ashes being thrown into the Seine. A Papal investigation annulled her sentence in 1456 and in 1921 she was canon
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• Siegfried Mynhardt
  '''Siegfried Mynhardt''' (1909-1996) was a venerated bilingual ([[Afrikaans]] and English) actor and director. (Often Born [[Siegfried Charles Ferdinand Mijnhardt]] in Johannesburg, the son of the m
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• Ron Fenton
  Born [[Ronald Edgar Fenton]] to in Hounslow, Middlesex UK, in 1935. As a child during the 2nd World War, Ron admits he found it an exciting time, fighter ...the 1st April 1961. In the same year he left the Merchant Navy to start in a boat yard in Shandon, Scotland, doing general boat repairs.
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• Melt J. Brink
  [[Melt J. Brink]] (1842-1925) was a [[Dutch]]-[[Afrikaans]] poet, playwright, actor and director. ...6 May 1842, he had little education and a chequered youth, before becoming a cartographer in the surveyor general’s office by profession. He was also
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• Norman Coombes
  ...his life he developed glaucoma and spent the last 18 months of his life in a home run by the Johannesburg Society for the Blind. ...– ''[[We All Fall Down]]'' (Director: [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]]), 1989 – ''[[A Snake in the Garden]]'' (Director: [[Chris Weare]]), 1989 – ''[[Shakespea
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• Gibson Kente
  ...k" Kente]]''' (1932-2004) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Kente] was a South African playwright, actor, director, musician, composer, impressario/ Born Gibson Mthuthuzeli Kente on July 25 (some sources say July 23), 1932, in Du
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• André Huguenet
  ...p]]) was one of the premier South African performers of the 20th century - a bilingual actor, director, theatre manager and journalist - impatient and c ...orie Barrett]] and ??. Thanks to her he was given a role in ''[[Polly with a Past]]''. In 1950 he was awarded the Grey College Medal of Honour even thou
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• Charles Etienne Boniface
  ...t one instance as [[Ignace Boniface]]. Over the years he also worked under a number of pseudonyms, especially for his more polemical writing, or his eff ...rison warder, he grew up a precocious child who, at "the age of twelve had a grounding in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Greek, had writte
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• Reza de Wet
  '''Reza de Wet''' (1952-2012) was a South African actress, director, playwright, novelist and drama lecturer. ...Wet and Elizabeth Mary De Wet (née Marais). In Senekal she apparently had a private tutor, but when her father was transferred to Bloemfontein, she att
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• Censorship in South Africa
  ...or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor. ...re, allowing also for domestic censorship of ‘undesirable’ works. Although a provision was made for an appeal to the Supreme Court, this option was seld
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