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  • ...Expeditionary Force and organised and took part in boxing tournaments for Company D. Like his fellow boxers [[Jack Lalor]] and [[Dick Hayes]], he was cast i [[Rand Daily Mail]], 25 July 1922
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  • ...y'' and ''The Joy of Living'', both in October/November 1902 at the Garden Theatre, after which he returned to England. ...city for a number of farces and in 1910 organised a company to play the [[Theatre Royal]] in Durban. In addition, in October of that year, he co-produced ''
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  • ...e in the pantomime ''Djin-Djin, the Japanese Bogey-Man'' at the Princess’s Theatre in Melbourne in 1895. This was followed by numerous parts in plays like '' ...ard Charles) [[R.C. Pitcher]], a fellow actor with the [[J.C. Williamson]] Company, and when he left for South Africa, she came with him.
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  • ...aned Sadie Kate in ''[[Daddy Long-Legs]]'' (1918), both at [[His Majesty's Theatre]]. Rand Daily Mail, 16 December 1913 (and other issues)
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  • ...mall role in ''[[Late Night Final]]'' (1937), staged by a visiting British company headed by [[John Laurie]] and [[Raymond Lovell]]. ...together with [[Cecilia Colley]] and [[Leo Kerz]], he formed the [[Group Theatre]], whose first production, [[Clifford Odets]]’s ''[[Golden Boy]]'' (1940)
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  • ...by [[African Film Productions]], which would have been ''[[A Story of the Rand]]'' ([[Lorimer Johnston]]/1916). Unfortunately we have not been able to fi ...d Tree'' (Harry Lachman/1929). He had established his own film production company in 1924, but it looks as though it only completed one film, a short directe
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  • ...s ''Plays Pleasant'', the play was first performed on 30 March 1894 at the Theatre Royal, South Shields. In 1903-4 it had a its first London production. 1928: Presented in English by the [[Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society]] in the [[Hiddingh Hall]] in 1928, produced by [[W. Arthur Sewell|
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  • ...irected by Arthur Penn, opened on February 2, 1966, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. ...ted by [[Anthony Sharp]] starring [[Shirley Anne Field]] at the [[Intimate Theatre]], Johannesburg. Other cast members were [[James Andrews]], [[Kevin Basel]]
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  • ...ecome one of the most esteemed, articulate and influential music, film and theatre critics in the country. The [[African Broadcasting Company]] (ABC) started broadcasting on 1st of July 1924. During the 1930s, Baneshi
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  • ...h Rosina Filippi. Her first engagement was at the People’s Theatre in the East End, when she played Portia in ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1914) under the ...ca and who was about to embark upon an extensive tour of India and the Far East. They left in April 1920 and returned in March 1922. While in India, she
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  • '''Dick Cruikshanks''' (b. Walthamstow, London, 28/10/1874 – d. East London, South Africa, 17/03/1947) was a stage and film actor, a writer as w ...the Ouida novel ''Under Two Flags'', was staged in London at the Britannia Theatre (with the cast including two horses who had “fought” in the South Afric
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  • In 2009 the Spaniel In The Works Theatre Company performed ''[[Tommy Atkins and The Canary Girl]]'', a play based on Glouces ...ular with critics, being dismissed as a preposterous piece, "an outrageous East-end melodrama..." etc.
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  • ...ret Rutherford]], who played it in the first production at London's Apollo Theatre in 1948. 1950: Presented by The [[Brian Brooke Company]] at [[His Majesty's Theatre]]. This production was also staged at the [[Hofmeyr Hall]] in Cape Town, di
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  • ...ch admired. This was followed by three years at the Northampton Repertory Theatre, where he worked with the renowned set designer Tom Osborne Robinson. ...formed to produce films for the Ministry of Information, Peake joined the company. After that he went freelance, directing, researching and scripting a numb
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  • Sibikwa,was created in 1988 as a result of a group of Daveyton, East Rand parents voicing their concerns about their childrens' poor attendance at sc Their involvement in theatre began with So Where To? Toured extensively throughout Southern Africa and f
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  • ...death she married [[Robert Langford]], with whom she founded a theatrical company. ==Contribution to South African theatre, film and media==
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  • ...nne Bradley]] and [[Jack Pendleton]]. Their first play at [[His Majesty’s Theatre]] was ''[[Kick In]]'', produced by [[George R. Montford]], whom she married ...at the [[Cape Town Opera House]]. There was talk of Moscovitch taking his company to Australia, but there is no direct evidence of that.
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  • ...e [[Johannesburg Repertory Society|Johannesburg REPS]], the [[Sarah Sylvia Company]] and The [[Cockpit Players]]. In 1955 he left for the UK at the invitation ...partnership with [[Taubie Kushlick]] in March 1959 forming the production company [[Kushlick-Gluckman]].
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  • ...stic director, writer, copywriter, teacher, and co-creator of the [[Market Theatre]] in Johannesburg. One of the most influential figures in South Africa theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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  • First came to South Africa as part of the Ivor Novello company with ''[[Perchance to Dream]]'' (1947). In 1953 featured as stage manager, ...]'' ([[Adam Leslie Theatre]], 1967), ''[[Eureka]]'', (Johannesburg [[Civic Theatre]], 1968), * , * .
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