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  • Studied at the University of Durban-Westville. He stuied for two years at the Drama Centre in London. ...g for the Fatherland]]'' (1978/9?*), ''[[The Me Nobody Knows]]'' ([[Market Theatre]], 1977.
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...e formed an a cappella band called the Boston Brothers. He was a member of the [[Phoenix Players]].
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  • ''[[Speed-the-Plow]]'' is a play by American playwright, film director, screenwriter and ''Not to be confused with '''[[Speed the Plough]]''' by H.V. Morton (1798).''
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  • The play was awarded the Dawie Malan Prize (DALRO), 1992. 1988: Directed by [[Clare Stopford]] [[Upstairs at the Market]] starring [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Dawid Minnaar]], [[Joanna Weinberg]], [[Ric
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  • ...ious theatre and they did a lot of nativity plays with a difference. After the course he joined [[Workshop '71]]. ...of [[Federated Union of Black Artists]]. He was a senior drama teacher at the FUBA Academy.
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ''[[Saras]]'' (an original musical in which she played the lead),
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  • 1977: First performed at [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1977, directed by [[Robert Kirby]], starring himself and [[Rika Sennet 1978: An MJR Production presented in the Concert Hall, [[Baxter Theatre]], 1978, directed by [[Robert Kirby]], featuring Kirby and [[Maureen Englan
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  • ...erwise Engaged]]'' and ''[[Getting Away With Murder]]'' (at the [[Intimate Theatre]]). (SACD 1977/78) ...for which he was nominated for the Artes Award) he then spent some time in the USA where he worked with Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company in
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  • ...ged originally in Canada and subsequently in the West End of London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with Maggie Smith and directed by Robin Phillips. == The original text ==
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  • ...reliving the bourgeois romantic situations of ''[[The Seagull]]'' and ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]''. ...Keogh]] and [[Elaine Proctor]]. It then played a season [[Upstairs at the Market]] (1979).
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ''[[In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'',
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  • ''[[The Ugly Noonoo]]'' comic satire written by [[Andrew Buckland]] (1954-) == The original text ==
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  • ...poverty of city life to a new beginning on the land; it is a metaphor for the rebirth of a nation. == The original text ==
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  • ...]] (1937-2014) was a South African playwright, director, actor, author and theatre critic. ...d in making the characters come alive. His words will live on in Just Down the Road, A Sort of Love Story and Thursday Night is Different..
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  • He was a member of the 1980s band ''Bright Blue'' who performed anti-apartheid music. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • ...oerien-Firth Company]], remaining in the country for much of the time, for the next 20 years. She then returned to resettle in England in 1993. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • == The original text == ...6 Soweto uprising and the renewed unrest of 1984-5, in order to reflect on the unrest and responses to it.
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  • ...26 May 1934 at Sydney-on-Vaal on the diamond fields in the Northern Cape, the eldest daughter of a diamond prospector. ...became the president of the [[National Council of Women]], later known as the [[Black Sash]].
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  • ''[[Danny and the Deep Blue Sea]]'' is a play by John Patrick Shanley (1950-)[]. ''Not to be confused with Terence Rattigan's '''[[The Deep Blue Sea]]'''''.
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  • Graduated from [[University of the Witwatersrand Drama Department|Wits]] in 1982 with a BA Dramatic Art. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • == The original text == ...tre at the Orange Tree, Richmond (Surrey, England), who first staged it on the 29th April 1977. Published by Samuel French (1979), Dramatist's Play Servic
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...life. Together with [[Rob Amato]] she carried on the theatre, now known as The [[People's Space]] after its creators left for London.
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  • ...Upington in the Northern Cape, the youngest of 5 children, and grew up on the family farm Rooidam, Namibia and went to primary school in Bethanie. ...Stellenbosch, Department of Drama]], and a B.A. Honours degree in Drama at the [[University of Cape Town]].
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  • ...ywoners]] ("the tenant farmers" "or "the sharecroppers") can refer to a '''theatre company''' or to a '''play'''. =[[Die Bywoners]]: The theatre company=
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  • ''[[Die Spinner]]'' ("The spinner") is a one-man play by [[Christo Leach|C.P. Leach]]. == The original text ==
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  • ==The original text== ...of Wilson plays revolving around the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. (The other plays are ''[[Talley & Son]]'' and ''[[Fifth of July]]''.)
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  • ...rrupt officials specifically in the Department of Pensions and Welfare and the resultant exploitation and humiliation of indigent black pensioners. 1995: First staged at the [[Windybrow Arts Festival]] in March, directed by [[Selaelo Maredi]], with
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  • Studied drama from 1979 at the University of Natal, Durban, under [[Elizabeth Sneddon]], obtaining a B.A. ...did fourteen productions. After her return she has worked for most of the theatre companies in South Africa and as a stage actress she made name for herself
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  • ''[[Die Teken]]'' ("The Sign") is a play by [[Deon Opperman]] (1962-). == The original text ==
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  • [[Junction Avenue Theatre Company]] ([[JATC]]) is a Johannesburg based theatre company. Also referred to as [[Junction Avenue Theatre]] or simply [[Junction Avenue]] in some sources.
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  • ...in, and has worked there since as a voice artist, writer and actress under the name [[Megan Metrikin]]. ...ieter|Tjaart]]’s ''[[The Vegetable Woman]]'' or ''[[Meditations on Blake & The Minotaur’s Sister]]'' (An adaption of Euripides’s ''[[Hippolytus]]'').
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  • See also '''''[[The Arabian Nights]]''''' == The original text ==
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  • ...an mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values. ...the play was presented by the [[Market Theatre Company]] [[Upstairs at the Market]] in 1982, starring [[Neville Thomas]] (Bradley), [[Jeremy Crutchley]] (Vin
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  • ...masters become slaves and slaves become masters. Trivelin, the governor of the island, makes Arlequin and Iphicrate, as well as Euphrosine and her slave C ...presented for the first time on March 5, 1725 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne by the Comédie Italienne.
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  • ...mpany''', used in exactly the same way. Also often '''Toneelgeselskap''' ("Theatre Company" or "Theatrical Company") = '''Use as the name of specific theatrical companies''' =
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  • ''[[Born in the RSA]]'' is a multilingual, workshopped play (styled a "docudrama") by [[Bar == The original text ==
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...3), ''[[The Blacks]]'' ([[PACT]] 1989), ''[[The Mighty Gents]]'' ([[Market Theatre]]), ''[[Hallelujah!]]'' (2000)'
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  • ...inga]] (1953-) is a well known actress, director, translator, [[community theatre]] facilitator and arts activist. ...r: a [[Fleur du Cap]] award for ''[[Mies Julie]]'' and a masters degree in the US).
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...''[[You Can't Take it With You]]'', ''[[Wait Until Dark]]'', ''[[Suddenly at Home]]'', ''[[Satire Schmatire]]'' and ''[[Adam's Follies]]''.
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  • Bobby is married and the couple has two sons. He graduated from the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]] in 1975.
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  • ''Faces in the Wall'' is the first play written by [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]] (1945-). == The original text ==
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  • ''[[On the Verge of Exploding]]'' is a British play developed in by [[John Wright]], ==The original text==
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  • == The original play == ...d in 1936, it was one of ten short plays known collectively as ''[[Tonight at 8:30]]'', and intended to be performed across three evenings. Originally wr
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  • == The original text == ...struggle against apartheid. The action of the play takes place in 1961 in the backyard of a small house in Algoa Park, Port Elizabeth. First performed i
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  • Born in Manchester, the year Valium was discovered. ...epping the Mark]]'', etc. Was the official South African representative at the 1996 Comedy Festival in Montreal.
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  • She was married to the actor [[Charles Pillai]]. She later married Mark Corlett. She has a BA Honours degree in Drama and is a Licentiate of the Trinity College of Music, London.
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  • ...lf Moon Theatre in London on 11 February 1980, in a production directed by the author. ...]], music by [[Johan Cloete]]. This production opened at [[Upstairs at the Market]] on 13 August 1986.
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  • ...t Revel Fox and the niece of [[Uys Krige]]. At one time she was married to the film maker Manie van Rensburg. ...ents only spoke English to her which explains why she is so comfortable in the use of languages.
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  • ...s Sloane, a brooding, dangerous lodger against his hosts. As Sloane prowls the house, his charm works on everyone but it cannot help him shake his dark pa The play was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964.
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  • ...1954 in Zimbabwe, where he also completed his schooling, before attending the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]], graduating in 1979 with a BA Honour ...a lecturer in the [[Rhodes University Drama Department|Drama Department]] at Rhodes University. (Later senior lecturer and finally professor.)
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  • ''[[Saturday Night at the Palace]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_at_the_Palace] is ...with his life, attacks his friend, then turns on, abuses and finally kills the black roadhouse attendant.
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  • = The original text = ...ey Todd''' first appeared as the main protagonist of the Victorian story ''The String of Pearls'' (1846–47),
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  • == The original text == 1984: Directed by [[Christopher Weare|Chris Weare]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], first performed 27 April 1984, starring [[Sean Taylor]] (Skyf), [[David
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  • '''Lynne Maree''' (19**-). Actress, director, theatre manager. Lynne, a Capetonian, started her professional life at the [[Space Theatre]] and moved to Johannesburg in 1976. Essentially an actress, she also direc
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  • ...pedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berkoff] is an English actor, author, playwright and theatre director. ...innovative, more integrated theatrical language. Berkoff’s encounter with the mime artist Jacques le Coq in Paris was paramount to his career.
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  • He was born in the Transkei. He studied Speech and Drama at [[Rhodes University]] and went on to become a fine bilingual ([[Afrikaans]]
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  • Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]] Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
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  • The daughter of [[Roy Cooke]], she studied at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]], completing a BA in English and History. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • == The original text == ...ushed out to the Cape Flats where moral and social disintegration leads to the death of her husband and baby.
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  • ...British playwright Tom Stoppard [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard#Theatre] (1937-). ==The original text==
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  • == The original text == ...kipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus], to look at notions of creativity, duty and the destructive forces of human passion.
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  • Raised in the Transkei, she learnt storytelling from her grandmother. She later obtained == The theatre-maker and actress ==
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  • ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== ...t the Market]] in 1980, having played to full houses at London's National Theatre.
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  • ''[[The Blood Knot]]'' is a play by [[Athol Fugard]] (1932-). Also found as '''''[[The Bloodknot]]'''''
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  • Studied drama at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]], 1977-1979. Founding member of [[Troupe Theatre Company]].
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  • ...ne Balder]]. The family moved to Stellenbosch in 1961, where he studied at the [[Stellenbosch University Drama Department]]. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • ...the years, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, as part of the [[alternative theatre]] movement of that period in South Africa. ...ription (such is the [[PACT Afrikaans Company]], The [[Arena Company]], or the [[Company of Four]] for instance).
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  • The first name sometines found written [[Claire Stopford]] Clare studied at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]].
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  • He was married to [[Reza de Wet]] from the late 1980s until her death in 2012. ...irector at the [[Market Theatre]]. He was at one time also the director of the [[Centre of Creative Acting]] in Hillbrow. Also worked freelance for [[PACO
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  • ''[[Thina Bantu - We People]]'' is a wokshopped play by [[Mavis Taylor]] and the [[UCT Workshop]] (According to [[Itumeleng Wa Lehure]]’s CV, the text was created by [[Itumeleng Wa-Lehure]], [[Mavis Taylor]] and [[Mark Fl
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  • '''''Ubu Roi''''' ('''''Ubu the King''''' or '''''King Ubu''''') is a play by French writer [[Alfred Jarry] == The original text ==
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  • == The original text == Written as a monologue in one act in 1980, the peice premiered in 1981.
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  • He has travelled the world as a presenter for Front Row on M-Net, sharpening his presenting skil ...acted in two international films, most notably in the final instalment of the Quentin Tarantino cult trilogy, ''From Dusk 'Til Dawn''.
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  • ...itle also found written as '''''[[Môre is 'n lang dag]]''''', according to the [[Afrikaans]] convention for titles. ==The original text==
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  • ...stic director, writer, copywriter, teacher, and co-creator of the [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg. ...of the most influential figures in South Africa theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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  • ==The original text== ...backlash against high prices and was the first theatre piece performed in the Palazzina Liberty on 3 October 1974.
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  • == The original text == ...c look at a nightmare South Africa, providing a dark and pessimistic look at a family of Afrikaner women besieged during a projected civil war. A play a
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  • ...anice graduated with a BA and Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama from the [[University of Cape Town]]. ...h group with [[Robin Malan]]. She later became head of the [[Youth Group]] at [[PACT]], before becoming a freelance actress and director.
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  • [[Bill Brewer]] (19**-1984) Actor, radio personality and theatre and film critic. ...', he was one of the most influential national theatre and film critics of the 1950s and 1960s, not only writing reviews, but a regular column as well .
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  • Born in the Eastern Cape. He spent some time pursuing a medical career then graduated f ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • == The original text == ...rt Elizabeth Plays'' ([[Oxford University Press]], 1974), ''South African Theatre: Four Plays and an Introduction'' ([[HAUM]] Educational, 1984), ''Athol Fug
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  • Born in Cape Town. She was married to the actor [[Ian Roberts]]. ...former's Diploma in Speech and Drama (Bilingual) and a Teaching Diploma in the early 1980s.
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  • ...llege. Theatre however kept calling and thus applied and was accepted into the suitably reputable Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. ...mpanies throughout the UK, she spent over three years at the Donovan Maule Theatre in Nairobi.
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  • = The play = ...first production in Stockholm took place in November 1906, at The People's Theatre, with Sacha Sjöström as Kristin, Manda Björling as Miss Julie, and Augus
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  • ...Yorkshire of a Welsh family and grew up in Kent, Scotland and Lancashire. The family eventually settled in Pietermaritzburg, Natal. ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • Dale was born in Durban and attended the Northlands Boys High School. He was married to [[Janine Neethling]]. He studied for a BA degree at the University of Natal in 1958.
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  • ...n Research Laboratory and as librarian at Wits, while doing some acting on the side. He was rehearsing the role of "Father Kumalo" in a stage version of ''[[Cry, The Beloved Country]]'' (dir. [[Roy Sergeant]]) in 2003 when he had to withdraw
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  • ...Africa. Conscripted into the apartheid army in 1980, he was discharged on the grounds of having "an immature personality with tendencies towards neurosis He studied at the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] until 1976.
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  • == The original text == ...s responsible for the death by suffocation of her son, whom he had sent to the battle front.
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  • Born on 3 March 1948 in Uganda of Irish descent. He was married to the actress [[Michele Burgers]]. He died on 24 July 2019, aged 71. ...productions to his credit, a career that includes writing awards for both theatre and feature film, aside from numerous television and feature film acting cr
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  • ...performer and director, and an influential presence in the Cape theatre of the 1970s and early 1980s. Died tragically at the age of 36.
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  • Born in Bournemouth, Sussex to Ivy Isabel Mayersbeth and Ralph Banning. The family emigrated to Durban, South Africa in 1948. Married Douglas Bristow-B ...rsity Education Diploma) She did a master's thesis at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in 1989.
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  • She trained at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department|University of Cape Town Drama Sc ...[CAPAB]], [[PACT]], the [[Baxter Theatre|Baxter]] and the [[Market Theatre|Market]]. In 1984 she joined [[PACT]] Drama as a permanent company member.
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  • ...title refers to the colour of the soil at Goree where the playwright spent the first nine years of his life. Full-length. Cast: mixed. == The original text ==
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  • [[Lara Foot]] (1967/8[?*]-) is a South African director, playwright and theatre manager. ...Drama) at [[University of the Witwatersrand]] (1989), and a MA in Drama at the [[University of Cape Town]] (2007).
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  • ...chitect, but drawn back into theatre in the late 1960’s. He was married to the actress [[Elma Potgieter]] and they had three children. He passed away on 6 ...for [[André Huguenet]]’s company. As a young man worked for the [[National Theatre Organisation]], i.a. in ''[[Nie vir Geleerdes]]'' ([[N.P. van Wyk Louw]]) 1
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  • ...o Fynnlands Junior School and New Forest High School, and in 1969 enrolled at [[Natal University]], Durban. He graduated in 1972 with a BA Degree in Hist ...thesis called ''Drama and Social Consciousness: Themes in Black Theatre on the Witwatersrand until 1984''.
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  • She studied at the [[University of Stellenbosch]]. ...Siel''. Since since 2002 she has been the co-owner of [[Die Blou Hond]], a theatre restaurant and art gallery in Pretoria.
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  • During his student years he worked at [[The Space]] and also took part in touring productions. He was contracted to [[C ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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  • Keith worked at [[Space Theatre|The Space]] in the 1970s. He also worked for [[CAPAB]], [[NAPAC]] and [[PACT]] for many years. He was Consultant Director at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and Drama director for [[CAPAB]].
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