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  • ...?i=174] is devoted to the professional writing and production of new South African plays. The programme accepts unsolicited manuscripts from anyone in [[isiXh
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  • ...play about **. First performed on the Spring season of the [[Artscape New Writing Programme]], 2007. Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays|South African Theatre Plays]]
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  • Sometimes found wrongly named as the [[Performing Arts Network of South Africa]], but best known by its acronym of '''[[PANSA]]'''. ...who thus became instrumental in launching the [[Performing Arts Network of South Africa]] ([[PANSA]]), a national lobby to promote and defend the interests
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  • ...[PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing]] or the [[PANSA Festival of New Writing]]. ...aim to encourage innovative new scriptwriting and generate original South African theatre works, to provide a platform for these works to reach the attention
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  • ...lished under the title ''Cell-Shock in Quarry ’76'': ''[[New South African Writing]]'' (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1977)*** (See Gosher, 1988)
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  • ...urage and develop the writing, publication and discussion of South African writing in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s Donker sold the imprint to [[Naspers]] ''Reef of Time: Johannesburg in Writing'' (a collection of pieces on Johannesburg, edited by [[Digby Ricci]], 1986)
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  • ...ng]]. A comedy. It won the Audience Vote at the [[PANSA]] Reading of New Writing Festival in 2002. Then had a full production at the [[Spier Summer Festival Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays|South African Theatre Plays]]
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  • A professor of African languages at Fort Hare University. His works of literary criticism include ...''[[Amaza]]'' ("Waves", 1974) became a prescribed work for schools in the new millennium, and was republished a number of times, and adapted for the sta
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  • ...South African situation. Published in ''[[Quarry ’78079: New South African Writing]]'' (Johannesburg: [[Ad Donker]], 1980) (See Gosher, 1988) Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays|South African Theatre Plays]]
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  • South African born, she spent much of her childhood in the USA and Europe, since her pare == Her writing ==
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  • ...ohannesburg Power Station. During the war he was a Lieutenant in the South African Corps of Signals. After the war he and his wife Marion settled in Ceres. ...ff and Marion and their two children immigrated to New Zealand. He died in New Zealand on the 6th April 2004 at the age of 88.
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  • ...ted in two additional categories - the [[Rosalie van der Gucht Prize]] for New Directors ([[Greg Karvellas]]), and Best Supporting Actor ([[Adam Neill]]). == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...ents and discussions. This was complemented throughout by workshops of new writing and individual performances from [[Jack Klaff]], [[Doreen Mantle]] and [[Ja ...re, Published: 02 May 2014[http://globalsouthafricans.com/latest/160-south-african-season-at-jermyn-street-theatre.html]
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  • ...as the [[Community Theatre Festival|Isigcawu Community Theatre Festival]], writing workshops, directing and performing projects, and international exchanges. ==[[The New Production Project]]==
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  • = The New African as concept = ...en Kruger]]). Basically a notion referring to the small class of “modern” African intellectuals (clergymen, teachers and other professionals) who began to ap
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  • [[David Philip]] (1927-2009). Publisher of South African writing and theory. ...sity where he read English Literature under C.S. Lewis. After returning to South Africa, he worked for Oxford University Press in Cape Town for seventeen ye
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  • His association with ''[[Sowetan]]'' dates back to 1998, when he started writing for the newspaper. After a few shifts in the corporate sector, he rejoined ...the ''[[Sunday Independent]]'', ''[[City Press]]'', ''New African'' and ''New Africa Analysis'' (both based in London) and ''[[Business Day]]''. He has b
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  • ...couraging the telling of new stories, and the development of new trends of writing. Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
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  • He began writing plays when he was sixteen, and his successful plays include ''[[Hinterland] ...'[[Hinterland]]'' gained three awards at the [[PANSA/NLDTF Festival of New Writing]] in 2012.
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  • [[Adriaan Donker]] (19**-2002) Publisher of South African writing and theory. ...l publishing firm '''[[Ad Donker Publishers]]''' to publish new writing in South Africa.
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  • [[Gail Louw]] (1951)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Louw] is a South African-born British playwright. ...Johannesburg on 13 October 1951 to a middle class Jewish family. She left South Africa to live in Israel after finishing school at 17, becoming one of the
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  • Besides her painting and writing, she also had an academic career, which began in 1970 as assistant in the ==Her writing career==
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  • ...izing Afrikaans writing in all the dialects and forms available in the new South Africa. A commissioned work for the [[Kleinkaroo Nasionale Kunstefees]] at Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays|South African Theatre Plays]]
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  • ...''[[Act of Morality]]'' by John Kench during the [[PANSA]] Festival of New Writing in November 2004 and ''[[Porra]]'' by [[Sonia Esgueira]] (2005-6). Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
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  • (1965-2010) South African actress, publicist and playwright. Born Fiona Anne Coyne in Springs, South Africa in 1965, died in Fishhoek on 18 August 2010.
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  • ...r playwrights instituted by [[SACPAC]] in 1987 to encourage the writing of new playtexts. The prize was a large amount of money, plus a guaranteed (tourin Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
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  • == Performance history in South Africa == 2009: Performed during the fifth spring season of the [[Artscape New Writing Programme]], directed by [[Gideon van Eeden]].
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  • [[The Pageant of South Africa|Pageant of South Africa, The]] (1910) [[The Pageant of South Africa|Pageant of Union, The]] (1910)
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  • ...s and essays on South African art have appeared in various publications in South Africa, the US, and the UK. Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
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  • Born in South Africa of Greek-Cypriot parents. he studied at ** Wits?**, Johannesburg. Be ...p to [[Mike van Graan]]’s ''[[Green Man Flashing]]'' in the [[PANSA New SA Writing Initiative]] at The [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]]’s [[Actors' Centre]].
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  • ...orming Arts Network of South Africa|NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New writing]]. Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
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  • The [[PACT Potpourri Festival]] is a festival of new, original South African plays. ...e early 1980s as a place to showcase writing by [[PACT]] artists and other new writers. The festival later encompassed other art forms as well.
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  • ...k in the new South Africa, who gets the opportunity to play a lesbian in a new play and then consults a lesbian critic on the role. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...reafter also performed in England (1978) and the revised text published by New Directions in 1979. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...on 19 May 1971 as the Nico Malan Theatre Centre. Inline with the new South African political dispensation and the concurrent changes the complex was renamed t Soon after, in view of the history and in line with the new South African political dispensation and the concurrent changes, the old '''[[Nico Malan
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  • Publishing ''[[Penseel]]'', a literary journal of new writing (founded by [[Danie Botha]] in 1969/70). Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
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  • [[Francis L. Rangoajane]] (1963-) is a South African born journalist, film and television-actor, script writer, director, lectur ...University with a thesis entitled ''Political Shifts and Black Theatre in South Africa'' (2011).
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  • ...ng Festival]] and went on to a full production at [[Spier]], and in 2008 a new play ''[[Not-a-hundred-and-four]]'' (or ''[[Not 104]]'' as the poster has i Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
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  • Pan Macmillan South Africa is a subsidiary of the Macmillan group in the UK and forms the trade ...cador]] has been single-minded in its pursuit of outstanding international writing, a philosophy which has led to critical and commercial success all over the
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  • ...vents in themselves, but became both metaphor for and the material for new writing. Some of these works however, were inherently critical of the processes, an Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Themes|South African Theatre Terminology and Thematic Entries]]
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  • ...lso used by the Drama Department of the University of Stellenbosch for its writing and cabaret exams. (Eikestad Gazette, 7 April, 2009) Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
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  • ...though also found in English writing. It has been used in various ways in South Africa. ...trekkers") who fled the British colonial rule in the Cape Colony, to seek new homes in the hinterland of Southern Africa. (See the entry on '''[[The Grea
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  • ...ity of Namibia]] (1993-1997), and from 2004 onward worked in the creative writing department at the University of Cape Town. ...or of storytelling and writing courses and has published widely himself in South Africa and Namibia, his creative works including poetry (''Bordering'', ''A
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  • It worked closely with artists in New Brighton, Kwazakhele and Motherwell townships. This community organisation ...a Arts Association]] assisted artists through the visual arts and creative writing
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  • A 2000 play by [[Fatima Dike]]. Published in ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', volume 14, 2000. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • Over the years the festival showcased over more than 200 new works and it has seen young performers like [[Chuma Sopotela]], and [[Thami ...e, funding, marketing, casting, rehearsals and the opening night. Creative writing in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa was also included in the workshops.
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  • ...espeare. It was created for the centennial of the 1993 woman's suffrage in New Zealand and was apparently developed as a [[TIE]] exercise, and then develo First performed in Wellington, New Zealand in 1993, and published in 1994 by The Women's Play Press.
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  • ...g [[Afrikaans]] writing in all the dialects and forms available in the new South Africa, the original programme was created by [[Juanita Swanepoel]] and [[ ...''[[So is ek gebek 2]]'' and ''[[So is ek gebek 3]]'', plus one focused on writing about food called ''[[So is my tafel gedek]]'' (i.e. "This is how my table
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  • ...he family enjoy a lunch specially prepared in honour of the youngest son’s new boyfriend – who the family are meeting for the first time – the stresse == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • After 30 years of being an art teacher, he began writing stories for his children and grandchildren. Among these were a series of "S ...nd Gretel]]'' (1987), ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' (1989) and ''[[The Emperor's New Clothes]]'' (1991).
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  • He is credited with co-writing and producing the soundtrack of the film ''[[Jock of the Bushveld]]''. ''[[The New Age]]'', 9 January 2014.
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  • ...t Pace Commercial College in Soweto. Mtshall worked briefly with the South African Council of Churches then returned to the US in 1988. He studied at Columbia South African History Online [http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/oswald-mbuyiseni-mtshali
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  • == Performance history in South Africa == ...Stellenbosch]]'s entry for the annual ''[[Kampustoneel]]'' festival of new writing in Pretoria by [[Linda de Jager]] and [[Eugenie Grobler]], with [[Johan Est
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  • [[Philip Rademeyer]] (1986- ) is a South African theatre writer, director and academic. He also writes poetry. ...View]]'', ''[[Expectant]]'', ''[[An(t)oniem]]'' and ''[[Lie]]'' - with two new plays, ''[[Full Stops on Your Face]]'' and ''[[Tee]]'', premiering in 2013.
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  • == Performance history in South Africa == ''New Writing Programme'', ([[Roy Sargeant]]) [[Artscape]] 2012.
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  • ...in 1972. The initial aim was to produce new black writing from the UK and South Africa. The word Temba is said to mean 'Hope' in Zulu. ...nd Asian people and some political issues, such as the cultural boycott of South Africa and UK arts funding.
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  • ...ny Akerman]] and [[Joseph Mosikili]], and began writing plays. Returned to South Africa in the early 1990s as an IEC monitor, manager of a Port Nolloth gues In 1998, he began working with the [[New Africa Theatre Association]] in Cape Town, for which he and his wife, [[In
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  • ...n. If the production he or she is mounting is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director may also work with the playwright or t In South Africa usage tends to follow the American rather than the British conventio
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  • Full title and acronym: ''The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies'' (''[[EAR]]'') ...ic articles, it publishes creative writing and book reviews of significant new publications as well as lectures and proceedings.
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  • Published in ''The Best American Short Plays, 1996-1997'' (New York : Applause Theatre Books, ©1998). ...Mure]]'' by [[Louis Pretorius]] as a playwriting exercise in the creative writing module offered by the Drama Department at [[Stellenbosch University]] (circ
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  • A satire on South African politics, clothed as a fast-paced thriller. ...ublisher]] in 2010. Published in [[Charles J. Fourie]] (ed.) ''[[New South African Plays]]''.
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  • ...ther Afrikaans festivals in the same year. This, it was hoped, would offer new young talent a chance to appear on a national stage while the competition i ..., and the money redirected to the [[KKNK]] management for the promotion of new Afrikaans work.
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  • ...elected as a finalist in the 2005 [[NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing]] for Drama. The play premiered at the [[ABSA KKNK]] in April 2006. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • The writing of the play was made possible through a writing fellowship funded by the [[Charles Diamond Foundation]], and the text was w ...the 2010 [[Naledi Theatre Awards|Naledi Theatre Award]] for Best New South African Play and the text was published by [[Junkets Publisher]] in 2012 (The publi
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  • His own writing career as novelist started with the novella ''Die Tonnel'' ("''The Tunnel' ...cobbler and locksmith and continued to write. He died of a heart attack in New Zealand on 10 October 2017.
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  • == Contribution to South Afri8can theatre, film, media and performance == ...rama since 1988, ''inter alia'' editing the collection ''[[Drama for a New South Africa]]'' (Indiana University Press, 1999).
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  • He has done musical work on a number of plays, as well as co-writing ''[[The Great Grimaldi Scientific Circus]]'' (with [[Bicki Falkof]], 1997) ...', assisted in creating [[Artscape]]'s decade of democracy production, ''[[New Day]]'', which he also conducted and co-produced.
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  • ...First written ans submitted to the the [[PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing]] under the name [[Peter September]]. Production Details == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...London, and having achieved enough success, was able to concentrate on his writing as a career. He was an inveterate traveler, frequently in the company of f ...ons]] would be filming it and in August of that year it premiered at the [[New Bijou]] in Johannesburg. [[Charles Sparrow]] and [[M.A. Wetherell]] were t
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  • Although trained as an actor, Oscar’s abilities stretch into teaching, writing and dancing. ...th [[Heinrich Reisenhofer]] (winner of the [[Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script 1999).
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  • ...ies]], etc. It pretty much seems to depend on who is renting it and who is writing about it, though the term “music hall" was an earlier one, usually replac In 1894 this became the new name for the re-opened [[Globe Theatre]] at 47/49 Fox Street in Johannesbu
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  • ...05-1951) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Charles_Bosman] was a South African writer, dramatist and journalist ...Transvaal for most of his life. In 1926, while on holiday at home from his new teaching post on a farm school near Zwingli in the Marico District, he was
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  • ...ehalf of the [[Wits School of Arts]] Homann continued to manage the Tisch (New York University) Study Abroad Program. ...tract to advance the curriculum realignment and to guide the launch of the new name of the division.
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  • ...rch projects in the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and Media Studies. Launched under the new name on 5 April 2016 as an interdisciplinary institute in the University of
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  • ...to write the [[H. Rider Haggard]]-inspired novel ''Isban-Israel: a South African story'' (1896), on which [[Joseph Albrecht]]’s film ''[[Isban; or, The My ...me Cossins was “a successful personage in New Zealand”. He died in Timaru, South Island in 1925. (FO)
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  • ...ocations in London, including the Tabard Theatre, which specialised in new writing. On returning to South Africa she joined the innovative [[Loft Theatre Company]] in Durban. But it
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  • Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]] [[NLSA]] See '''[[National Library of South Africa]]'''
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  • He was also one of the founding members of the [[Congress of South African Writers]]. ...opment Trust. He later headed up various non-governmental organisations in South Africa, including the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, the Nelson Mandela Fo
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  • Grew up in the Amatole Mountains of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Conscripted into the apartheid army in 1980, he was discharged on t == Writing ==
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  • ...n the 19th century, the early part of the 20th century and again under the new democratic dispensation after 1994, when English was gradually being pushed ...ring [[Afrikaans]] one of the two official languages of the [[The Union of South Africa]], replacing Dutch.
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  • ...stribute in-depth and critical writing on dance and theatre development in South Africa” (Gary Gordon: Lessons and Mirrors, July 1997) To this end it empl ...([[NAF]], 2006). Annually for a number of years they also presented their New Voices programme with their young performers and choreographers at the [[N
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  • ...comic book writer for Strika Entertainment[https://www.strika.com/about] (writing a soccer comic called ''Supa Strikas'') and has been a staff member at the [[Twist Theatre Development Projects]]. 2011. ''[[New South African Playscripts]]''.
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  • ...ked briefly as a performer and facilitator for the Non-Violence Project of South Africa, as an executive recruitment consultant and training manager, for th ...warded the [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Rosalie van der Gucht prize]] for new directors for ''[[Hoot]]'', award year 2007.
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  • ...friend [[Sue Clark]] introduced her to poetry as an art form and she began writing. ...ed the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and spent some time in self-imposed exile in New York (1979-83).
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  • ...elancer for the ''[[Weekly Mail]]'' (later the ''[[Mail and Guardian]]''), writing on film under his own name and as [[Fabius Burger]], from 1985 to 1995. In ...cluding Vierspel, Entshe Talente and Dramatic Encounters for the SABC, and New Directions for M-Net.
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  • ...e court martial of Major John André (1751-1780). It was first performed in New York by the Old American Company on March 30, 1798. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • The play has played a number of theatres and festivals in South Africa, and has toured internationally, ''inter alia'' to the USA, Canada a == Performances in South Africa ==
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  • ...one of the adjudicators of the [[PANSA|Pansa]] Festival of Reading of New Writing, 2004. Her collection of African nursery rhymes was published by [[Struik]] in 2006.
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  • ...lls Opera in London, touring productions throughout the UK. He returned to South Africa and worked for [[Cape Town Opera]] for the next twenty years as head ...rican mythology (published by [[Heinemann Press]] in the anthology ''South African Operas for Young People''), as well as the libretti for symphonic operas th
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  • == Performances in South Africa == ...[[Ralph Lawson]], designed by [[Brian Collins]], as part of the Baxter New Writing Programme at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1998.
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  • ...[Baxter Theatre]] as director of the [[Baxter Theatre]]’s successful [[New Writing Programme]]. ''[[A Writer's Last Word]]'', staged at the [[Baxter Theatre]] Since around 2000 he has been writing and directing for television.
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  • The ''[[South African Opinion]]'' (or ''[[S.A. Opinion]]'') was an influentiual literary-politic ...s, as well as dramatic and memorable cover pages depicting images of South African life, and some excellent political cartoons" (Sandwith, 2008:39).
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  • ...and in 1909 she was there again with a prestigious new company called The New Theatre. Plays in which she appeared included ''The Prince Consort'' (1905)
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  • ...e and her husband (now known as [[Fred W. Leonard]]) clearly '''were''' in South Africa in 1900, as they are both listed as a member of the the Arnold compa ...on established herself as a rather prominent writer and scenario editor, writing about thirty features and shorts.
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  • ...isited England and on his return in August 1814 began to devote himself to writing and art. Thus his remaining years were spent in Cape Town, except for a bri == His contribution to South African theatre ==
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  • ...currently writing a doctoral dissertation on contemporary jazz culture in South Africa. ...c]]. He also serves on the steering committee of the [[Arterial Network]], South Africa.
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  • Born in New York city. Married to Judith (Barr) Wertheim. ...r. He published widely on british and American drama, and on post-colonial writing.
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  • Born in South Africa on 19 April 1956 ...thwestern University, Chicago, with a study on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets. The recipient of various Rockefeller and Mellon Fellowsh
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  • Born in Pretoria on 31 January 1985, he grew up in various towns across South Africa due to career driven parents, and finally finished school at Pieters ...television shows, he began to focus on writing, joining the popular South African soap opera ''[[Egoli- Place of Gold]]'' in their script department in 2009,
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  • ...1923 he went to Panama where he designed three cinemas; in 1924 he went to New York, joining the first National Pathe's Cosmopolitan Studio in Haarlem whe ==Contribution to the performing and creative arts in South Africa==
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  • ...iversity]] for her BA degree. She accompanied her husband, L. A. Hurst, to New York, where they lived for two years. At the University of Columbia she too ...rica Anna studied at the [[University of Cape Town]] (BSocSc). She started writing soon afterwards, when married to her second husband, Gerhard Bassel. They u
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  • ...he [[PANSA]] Award for New Writing (2004). The play deals with white South African right-wingers in 1994. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • [[Brian Heydenrych]] (1969- ). A South African stage, film and television actor. ...was the festival co-ordinator of the [[PANSA]] Festival of Reading of New Writing.
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  • ...blished as ''Experiments in Freedom: Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama'' by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 2010. ...Journal]]'', ''[[English in Africa]]'', ''[[Scrutiny2]]'' and ''[[Current Writing]]''. He has also been a critic, reviewing books and drama for ''[[The Sunda
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  • ...uring Hawtrey, Arthur Playfair and Faith Stone. After London, it played in New York (at the Criterion Theatre, on 16 to November 1903), Washington DC, Det .../wiki/The_Man_from_Blankley%27s#:~:text=The%20Man%20from%20Blankley's%20is,writing%20under%20the%20pseudonym%20%22F.] Both films are now considered lost.
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  • He started off by writing commissioned occasional pieces for specific festive occasions, beginning wi The year 1975 also saw Walters writing his first formal drama, ''[[Die Vroue van Kores]]'' (The women of Kores"),
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  • ...d laws, where he was then educated. He became an insurance clerk and began writing for the theatre in 1975. ...ded the [[Bahumutsi Players|Bahumutsi Drama Group]] of Soweto, thenceforth writing and producing his plays for them. During the 1980s the plays were also perf
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  • ...End Studio at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght. The play won the Fishamble New Writing Award in 2008 and was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2009, where it ...Greunen]] translated the play into [[Afrikaans]] and adapted it to a South African setting , entitling it ''[[Janneman]]'' (an endearing diminutive for the [[
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  • Television appearance in M-Net's New Year's Eve ''Outrageous'' party; featured singer in the 1993 Miss SA pagean ...for ''Muzik a la Carte''; choreography for ''Here, There and Everywhere''; writing and compilation of ''Ticket to Ride''.
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  • [[Stephen Gray]] (1941-2020) was an immensely influential South African academic, literary historian, theatre reviewer, poet, novelist and playwrig ...iter. He was more remarkable for never having embraced digital technology, writing his articles, books and numerous letters by hand.
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  • ...ember of the Writers Guild of America. She is delighted to be returning to South Africa to celebrate ten years of democracy, and is privileged to have the o ...ptwriting to undergraduate students al Yale University ' since 1990 and at New York University since 1994. She has also conducted screenwriting workshops
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  • [[Lara Foot]] (1967/8[?*]-) is a South African director, playwright and theatre manager. ==Her contribution to South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance==
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...role of the performing arts in the reconstruction of cultural identity in South Africa. Unpublished master’s thesis. London: University of London.
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  • ...director-producer, satirist, journalist and novelist. He is also known as "South Africa's first professional dramatist". ...entrate on his stories of the Cape characters and dialect. This led to him writing his first stage play. He also wrote three novels, two published under the p
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  • ...emotional health and clear thinking, in which she explores a wide range of new ideas and information relating to human behaviour and experience. She is a ...she was part of the team that developed the jazz opera ''[[King Kong]]'', writing the lyrics for the famous 1959 production by [[Union Artists]].
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  • ...i/Spike_Milligan], looking at Milligan's serious nervous breakdown, whilst writing the British radio comedy programme ''The Goon Show'' [https://en.wikipedia. ...ed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004 before transferring to London's New Ambassadors Theatre in 2005. Performed in the USA at The Wilma Theater, Phi
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  • ...s including the whole spectrum of activities involved in the process, from writing, experimentation and [[improvisation]], to all forms of design and directio == Theatremaking in South Africa ==
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  • ...or for the community performance company "Housed" by David Watson, Old Vic New Voices, The Old Vic, London; Research Administrator to Professor Jakelin Tr ...s in her field, including projects and articles on the conflux of creative writing and language diversity.
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  • ...ngle volume and in a handy format, rather than undertake any comprehensive new research. A key model for this project was Phyllis Hartnoll’s famous ''Ox ...upon did a basic search of the most prominent books and articles on South African theatre and performance, in order to compile a gross list of possible entri
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  • '''''London Road''''' is a play by South African writer [[Nicholas Spagnoletti]]. ...orming Arts Network of South Africa|NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New writing]].
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  • [[Zakes Mda]] (1948-) is a South African playwright, academic, painter, novelist, and poet. ...esidence at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Western Cape, South Africa.
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  • While planning his next move from Nairobi to New Zealand he met [[June Levard]], daughter of [[Philip D Levard]], a well-kno He married June and they moved south and started his South African career.
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  • ...founded in Natal in August 1936, by [[Afrikaans]]-speaking members of the South Arican Railways (SAR) in protest against the dominance of English in Natal ...directing ond other workshops and awards the annual C.R. Swart Prize for new Afrikaans one-act plays. The ATKV was from the beginning involved in the Ou
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  • ...Phyllis Dare, and played for two performances daily until 26 June 1902. A new version, now simply called ''[[Bluebell]]'' (or ''[[Blue Bell]]''), was per ...of a book) done on the London stage, and the piece apparently inspired the writing of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories.
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  • ...ied arts companies around South Africa in the early 90’s. After working in South Africa, Paul moved to London where he spent the next 8 years. It was as a d ...nt Through Drama Academy]] -the largest single academy for young people in South Africa.
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  • ...irector]], as applied to stage, media or film, is found in two meanings in South Africa, ...n. If the production he or she is mounting is a new piece of writing or a (new) translation of a play, the director may also work with the playwright or t
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  • ...London. Exploring the world, she lived in Zimbabwe and Zambia and came to South Africa as a newly wed. She lived in Cape Town between 1967 and 1983, whe ...gazine'' (South Africa), Explorer Magazine (Visa) and Winescape Magazine (South Africa).
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  • ...dulgent. Previously there was a much more urgent agenda that determined my writing. Now I can return to personal experiences”. [Van Heerden (2008)][http://w ...family that raised him and the horrors of Apartheid in his war torn South African homeland. Subtitled a "Memoir for the Stage", the play is told both from th
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  • ...wn for her role in the [[Afrikaans]] drama series ''[[Sonkring]]'' and for writing the screenplay for the [[Afrikaans]] television drama series ''[[Erfsondes] ...a text also rewarded with the AngloGold/ Ashanti-Smeltkroesprys for best new [[Afrikaans]] text in 2004.
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Margot Bryant|Bryant, Margot]] 1978. South Africa’s greatest theatrical partnership. ([[Leonard Rayne]] & [[Freda Go
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  • ...on 28 March 1880. The opera opened in the USA at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 20 December 1883. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...eatrical work is as old as theatre itself, particularly prevalent in comic writing. ...cularly noticeable during the 19th century, Australia, New Zealand and '''South Africa''' in particular, as can be seen from this encyclopaedia.
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  • ...In 1947 he returned to Cape Town and worked at painting, broadcasting and writing. ...ns of ballet costumes were exhibnited in America and are today part of the New York Public Library's collection. In 1949 he moved back to Molteno to beco
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  • ...en''' (1974-) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashraf_Johaardien] is a South African playwright, poet, columnist, performer and arts manager. ...]]'' which has been screened at film festivals in Cape Town, Johannesburg, New York, Toronto, Paris, San Francisco, Chicago, Turin, Adelaide, Bologna, Bru
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  • The idea for the documentary style play came from a writing project undertaken by [[Nicky Rebelo]] while a student at the [[University ...to hunt for jobs, food, cigarettes, handouts and thus gaining a wealth of new and topical material as well as invaluable empathy for the people they move
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  • ...ersity of Sorbonne in Paris. In this time he forged links with a number of South Africans resident there. ...tate of Siege'' (1983), ''Reinventing a Continent: Writing and Politics in South Africa'' (1996) and ''[[Destabilising Shakespeare]]'' (1996).
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  • ...d with that of [[Paul de Groot]] in June 1926, she became a member of the new company, the [[Paul de Groot Toneelgeselskap]]. Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
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  • ...the interior"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet], writing a report in two volumes, containing sketches and much needed maps. ...in the Cape Colony, having married a local botanic artist, and settled in South Africa in 1800. In 1804 he returned to England and was appointed Second Sec
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  • ...–92)[], and was first performed in on July 11, 1870, in Wallack's Theatre, New York. More music was added later. It contains the character "Fritz van Vond == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • '''There are two South African theatre and media personalities by the name of [[Peter Voges]]''' ==Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance==
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  • Shirley did freelance writing on various topics for, inter alia, ''[[Business Day]]'' in the 1990s. ...[Pieter Toerien|Toerien]] and [[Basil Rubin|Rubin]] she stepped forward as new management of the [[Intimate Theatre|Intimate]] in 1969. Their first co-pro
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  • [[Rina Minervini]] (1944-) is a South African journalist, arts editor and author. ...don, Vereeniging, Johannesburg (Roosevelt High School) and Bolton Landing, New York State, United States (as an American Field Service exchange student, 1
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  • At the beginning of the 1890s he came to South Africa under the auspices of [[Luscombe Searelle]], with a company led by [ ...(where he had been the manager for a number of years previously), and the new year of 1898 found him at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Australia.
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  • The son of a composer of Hebrew songs, he began writing poetry, articles and plays from 1879 onwards, producing several playtexts, ...country. He also served as honorary president of the Zionist Federation in South Africa and was a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johann
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  • The novel tells the story of a simple man who embarks on a journey through a South Africa, shattered by civil war, to return his mother to die on the farm whe == Performance history in South Africa and abroad==
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  • [[Anthony Delius]] (1916-1989) was a South African journalist, political commentator, poet, author and playwright. ...a reporter in Africa, as well as the USA and Europe, he also lectured in African Government at the University of Cape Town.
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  • ...k was born in South Africa, probably in the late 1880s, and early on began writing poetry, the earliest known published (by himself?) in a volume entitled Poe ...Canada. He subsequently married Isabella Hamilton Kyle in 1920 and began a new family.
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  • [[Veronica Baxter]] (1963-) is a South African theatre and performance lecturer, researcher, director and performer. Born in 1963 in Lady Frere/Cacadu in the Eastern Cape, South Africa to South African and British parents.
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  • In the 1990s she did numerous courses in screen writing. ...a [[WGSA Muse Award]] for Drama and a [[SAFTA]] Award for Best Television Writing.
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  • ...ity of Stellenbosch]] with a thesis on ''Selected Black African Dramatists South of the Zambesi'', co-supervised by [[Temple Hauptfleisch]] and [[Dennis Sch == Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance ==
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  • ...1908, and would devote the rest of his life to his cultural activities and writing. ...s and one-act light farces could be considered the true beginning of local writing in [[Afrikaans]], even though he wrote much of it in what was known as [[Ka
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  • Besides writing numerous aids awareness programmes and more that 20 industrial theatre and [[Ntombifuthi Vezi]] 2000. ''A comparative study of three South African playwrights. The profiles of: [[Jerry Pooe]], [[Mbongeni Ngema]], [[Sishoso
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  • He later settled in Bulawayo, where he became the Rhodesian manager of [[African Consolidated Theatres]], and died in Bulawayo on 25 November 1932. In between his European and Australian activities he was also active in South Africa, performing on the stage in both Cape Town and Johannesburg as well
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  • ...ie]] (1965- ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Fourie] is a South African playwright and stage director. ...dings at the Old Vic under the patronage of [[Janet Suzman]] and the South African High Commission, with guest speakers Sir [[Antony Sher]] and actor [[John K
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  • ...Jamestown, where he also went to school and matriculated in 1951. He began writing stories when nine years old, publishing in a variety of journals for the yo ...in the faculty of Education at the same university, also teaching creative writing skills - remaining there till his retirement in ***.
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...’s [[National Arts Festival]]: small engagements in the bigger campaign. ''African Affairs'', 93(372):387-409.
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  • ...an parents in the United States of America in 1979. The family returned to South Africa in the mid-1990s after the first democratic elections in the country ...h! Spoken Word Collective]]'', the first poetry collective of its kind in South Africa. In 2004 they created and performed ''[[This is Not An Intellectual
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  • ...5), an MA in Southern African Studies (York University, 1988) and a PhD in African Literature ([[University of the Witwatersrand]], 1997). ...d in 2000, promoted to Associate Professor and later Professor and Head of African Literature (2012 to 2021).
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  • ...r "an [[Englishman]]") this word also has more specific adjectival uses in South Africa: == (a) A reference to ''a South African English speaking person'': ==
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...in Herber, Avril 1979. ''Conversations: Some People, Some Place, Some Time South Africa''. Johannesburg: Bateleur. 2-9.
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  • ...English-born folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa. ...ve found new roots in South Africa - and is busy with recording contracts, new stage shows and movie ideas.'
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  • [[Anton Blake Horowitz]] (1962-) is a South African born actor ...a 16-year-old, playing small roles in the [[Space Theatre]] in Cape Town, South Africa.
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  • ...hel Irving and the English Comedy Company left for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, Stephen Ewart was her leading man, appearing in ''His House in Ord ...neral Pretorius in ''[[De Voortrekkers]]'' ([[Harold M. Shaw]]/1916) for [[African Film Productions]].
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  • ...sdorp Dramatic and Operatic Club]], after this society became the first in South Africa to be officially recognised by a municipality. This recognition enta ...ans category. In 1933 the competition was named the [[Buster Harrison Play Writing Competition]] in honour of the society’s founder. At the end of 1933, P.P
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  • ...by a M.Dram-degree in Directing. During the course of his studies he began writing, directing, and acting in playsa career he has pursued professionally since ...y since 1991. He was born on the mission station Maklala near Marble Hall, South Africa, where his parents were missionaries.
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  • ...is the Series Editor for the ''[[Siyagruva]]'' Series of novels for South African teens. ...outhern Africa'' and ''No Place Like and Other Short Stories'' by Southern African Women Writers, as well as various collections of writings by and about Gay
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  • ...hed by the British Film Institute in 1996), it was revised throughout, and new entries and background features were added, to make the website serve as a An arts and lifestyle website that focuses on South African theatre, music, comedy, film, travel, tech and more. Subtitled "Because Art
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  • [[Megan Lewis]] (1968-) is a South African-American theatre historian and performance scholar. ...rmance theory and World Theatre, General Education introductory courses on African media and drama, and serves as the Graduate Program Director for the Depart
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  • ...centre gave rise to the notion of somehow writing up the history of South African theatre history and led to a number of subsequent articles and books on the ...s the core project of the Centre's overarching research programme on South African Theatre.
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  • ...s in [[Afrikaans]], and '''Fourie''' is equally widespread as a surname in South Africa, thus there are a number of individuals involved in theatre known as ''Not to be confused with the South African actor '''[[Peter Fourie]]'''''
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  • ...England in 2017 where she now lives and continues to appreciate the South African arts from afar. ...jects through the medium of non-fiction life writing focusing on the South African film context.
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...995. Drama as a means of facilitating adult learning in rural areas: South African case studies at Akanani. Unpublished master’s thesis. Johannesburg: Unive
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  • ...rapher in various parts of the country, from Malmesbury and Cradock in the south to Standerton and Heidelberg in the north. By 1900 he had his own studio i ...bsite devoted to Jewish military history, he was awarded the Queen’s South African Medal in June 1903 while a correspondent for Central News.
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  • ...s celebrity in his time and a fine public speaker, so - in addition to his writing - he undertook a series of public reading tours in the later part of his ca ...a 31-year-old Dickens, by Margaret Gillies, was found in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
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  • ...le Red Riding Hood'' staged at the Rotunda Theatre in Liverpool. A critic writing for The Stage wrote “Master Charles Kitts, though inclined at times to be ...pire Palace]] in Johannesburg. By 1914 and then in 1916 they were back in South Africa, appearing in a “pocket revue” called ''[[Gee-Whiz!]]'' at the [
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  • ...heir abilities and skills in painting and printmaking, sculpture, creative writing, dance, music, drama etc., and where people interested in the arts may work
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  • Born in Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Margery and Emmanuel Sher. He grew up in the suburb of S He left South Africa for London to audition at the Central School of Speech and Drama and
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  • '''There are two South African plays by this title:''' ...p Petersen]]. First performed in 1992, the play was very well received in South Africa, Malaysia and London.
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  • Lorraine Kapp now works in Mental Health and is currently writing a novel about how this daunting subject affected women in Victorian England ...ction of ''[[A Voyage Round My Father]]'', produced for the opening of the new [[Port Elizabeth City Hall]].
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  • '''Mike van Graan''' (1959- ) is a prominent South African dramatist, theatre director, cultural consultant and activist. ...''[[Hostile Takeover]]'') to the annual [[PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing]]
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] Mdlalose/Nkulumayo, N. 2009. Stories of old revisited. ''South African Labour Bulletin'', 33(1):
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  • ...amatist, composer, conductor and manager, who had quite an impact on South African theatre during the late 19th century. ...rked as a pianist in Christchurch and graduated to conductor, also singing writing an composing.
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  • ...in the Park Theatre (1828) and the Bowery Theatre (1851), and published in New York by Samuel French, in French's Standard Drama. Acting edition. no. 192 == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...Turkey, the US and Canada. From 1980 to 1985 he edited the important South African literary magazine ''Staffrider''. In 2003 he published a series of biograp ...shows also the particular wit and humour that is present in all Van Wyk's writing. In 1981 he received the Maskew Miller Longman Award for black children's l
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  • One of the most influential figures in South Africa theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s. ...r [[University of Natal]], but dropped out before graduating. He had begun writing stories by this time. Went to London in 1959 to study photography and film
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  • [[C. Louis Leipoldt]] (1880-1947) was a South African poet, playwright, paediatrician, botanist, journalist, novelist, cook and c ...me a journalist for a short period during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), writing for local papers ''[[De Kolonist]]'', ''[[Het Dagblad]]'', and was for a ti
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  • ...but discovered a need to write songs expressing and interpreting the South African reality. Primarily known for his tranformation of South African music, and the enhancement of non-standard Cape Afrikaans (or "Kaaps") as a
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] Piling and diaphragm wall complete at [[Natal Playhouse]] site. 1983. ''South African Construction World'', 2(1):22-27
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...and theme in some modern Xhosa plays. Unpublished master’s thesis. Alice (South Africa): University of Fort Hare.
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  • ...a (Hons) (Witwatersrand) 1975, an MA Theatre Studies (State University of New York) 1980, an a Fulbright Scholarship. He is also a Graduate of the Britis Having gone to State University of New York at Binghamton on a Fulbright Scholarship (1978-80), to complete a mast
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  • ...rold Athol Lanigan Fugard''' (1932- ) is an internationally-renowned South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director. ...nternationally, Fugard was referred to as 'the greatest active playwright' writing in English in the 1980s, and was voted one of the top 100 playwrights of th
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  • In writing this work, De Wet also brings in elements from other Chekhov plays, e.g. '' ...obably earned De Wet the most praise and money of all her plays outside of South Africa.
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  • ...oon being hailed as a genius and in many respects the spokesperson for the new generation of younger [[Afrikaans]] dramatists. 1989 saw Opperman move to Johannesburg, where he continued writing, directing and producing for theatre. In this time he also made his first
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  • ...d in the evolution, history and forms of drama, theatre and performance in South Africa. ...are to create a comprehensive database on the history and nature of South African theatre and make it available as a general reference work and resource for
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  • ...urnalist and cultural theorist. He is considered a pioneer of black South African drama. ...[[Albert Luthuli]]), he taught for a while at Umzumbe on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast before relocating to Johannesburg in 1929 and become head teacher at
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  • ...ts and gangster rivalry surfaced publically and brutally after 1994 as the new constitution opened up a wide range of economic opportunities and democrati ...filmed adaptation of the novel ''[[Tsotsi]]'' by [[Athol Fugard]], a South African/UK co-production, written and directed by [[Gavin Hood]], produced by [[Pet
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  • ...a, she moved to Australia in 1994 with her husband Lloyd, where she made a new career as performer and playwright. ...ean Taylor]] in ''[[The Collector]]'' and perhaps her most notable role in South Africa was as "Desdemona" opposite [[John Kani]] and [[Richard Haines]] in
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  • [[Bartho Smit]] (1924–1986) was a South African writer, poet, dramatist, director, translator, editor and publisher. ...losophy. While in Europe they also met and became close friends with South African author [[Jan Rabie]] and others.
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  • Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]] [[PANSA / NLDTF Festival of Reading of New Writing]]
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  • ...nt of Home affairs, doing translations. It is in this period that he began writing poetry, stories, essays, drama and literary reviews, works often dealing wi ...r, like most of the authors of his time, he wrote to create and supply the new [[Afrikaans]] literature with a canon of serious works in all genres.
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  • ...y in the Eastern Cape. Founded in 1962, the Guild has been home to some of South Africa’s leading artists, emerging local performers, as well as several i ...the Second World War, where the young East London soldier passed the hours writing a pantomime.
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  • ...ng in Franschoek and working as Resident Dramatist for [[CAPAB]]. He began writing the work in 1981-2, a period of immense confrontation and violence in the c The play also won the newly created [[Dawie Malan Award]] for new indigenous plays, instituted by [[DALRO]], in that year.
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Martin Orkin|Orkin, Martin]] 1985. Drama in South Africa: ''[[Gandhi in South Africa : the play]]''. ''English Academy Review'', 2:61-67.
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  • '''Reza de Wet''' (1952-2012) was a South African actress, director, playwright, novelist and drama lecturer. ...h as Gothic and Victorian literature, Russian literature and [[Afrikaans]] writing from the first half of the 20th century.
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  • ...lso worked under a number of pseudonyms, especially for his more polemical writing, or his efforts at gaining publicity and self-promotion for himself and his ...again from 1832 till he left for Natal in 1844, producing some of his best writing for the theatre in the 1830s.
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  • African Star! – The Will Schreiner Story. 1999-2000 ...rty”, 1995), ''[[Elizabeth]]'' (1996), ''[[Pick Ups]]'' (1998), ''[[Bungee Writing Finals]]'' (2003), ''[[Noises Off]]'' (2005) as well as its [[Afrikaans]] v
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  • ...musician, he had to replace an ill actor in an amateur play. He then began writing and producing plays in church halls, hospitals, and at private parties in t ...Fame”, the Playwright’s Sidewalk in front of the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York in 1998.
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  • ...rica’s premier graphic artist, he has also been a major influence on South African theatre and film. Born 28 April 1955 in Johannesburg, he has a BA in Politics and African Studies ([[University of the Witwatersrand]] 1974-76), art training with Bi
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...sch, Temple]] (ed.). ''The Breytie Book: A Collection of Articles on South African Theatre Dedicated to [[P.P.B. Breytenbach]]''. Johannesburg: The Limelight
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  • ...n Legation, the official residence of Italy’s diplomatic representative in South Africa. As such it had to be essentially Italian in style and character. In ...businessmen from all over the country such as Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, South Africa’s Minister of Finance from 1924 to 1939, and Isidore William Schle
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Leida Snow|Snow, Leida]] 1990. South African director encounters the Schuberts in the classroom. ''Theater Week'', 3(29)
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  • Over the years it became the home and training ground to numerous South African performers, directors and other theatre artists, including such prominent i ...[Survival]]'' by [[Theatre Workshop '71]] in 1976. It saw a great deal of new work by young writers in the three years of its existence, including ''[[Da
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  • ...second name as her stage name. He was a collector of water rates for the New River Company and according to "Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976" she ...ith [[Stephen Ewart]], who had come out with her. Her first appearance in South Africa was on 30 June 1914 in ''[[Within the Law]]'' and this was followed
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...n [[Henrietta Mondry|Mondry, Henrietta]] (ed.). ''The Waking Sphinx: South African Essays on Russian Culture''. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand
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  • ...]] (1934-2021) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Govender] was a South African writer and playwright of Tamil descent. ...ricultural implements company and at the same time he did part-time sports writing for the magazine ''[[Graphic]]''.
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  • ...n and directed UFS and [[KKNK]] in 1998), ''[[Skroot]]'' (written in 1999, new production by [[PACT]]] in 2001 at [[KKNK]] and acted at UFS 2003), ''[[Lim ...[Die huweliksaansoek]]'' and video text ''Disciplinary Hearings'' in 2008. Writing and directing ''[[Don’t shoot the messenger]]'' at UFS and [[Grahamstown
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  • ...right practitioners. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO). They became a commercial enterprise in 1 ...4) Awarded to an individual who has made a notable contribution to South African theatre. In November 1981 this was awarded the first time to [[P.P.B. Breyt
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  • This version was first to performed at Niblo's Garden Theatre, New York on 20 April, 1863. == Performance history in South Africa ==
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...ama of hunting and healing: interpreting the rituals of the San. ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', 17:65-78.
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  • ===Early years in South Africa=== Her TV and film appearances include, in South Africa, The
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  • [[Michael Picardie]] (1936-) is a South African born academic, actor and playwright. ...niversity of the Witwatersrand, obtaining a B.A. in Politics, English, and African Studies (1957) and a B.A.Hons in Politics (1958). He then trained in socia
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...ie]] 2010. ''Experiments In Freedom: explorations of identity in new South African drama'', by [[Anton Krueger]]. Reviewed in: ''Africana'', June. 240-245
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  • One of the leading exponents of the improvisational method in South Africa, Ellenbogen has over the years developed a specific style of improvi ...been included in volumes of South African plays, e.g. ''[[Drama for a New South Africa]]'', edited by [[David Graver]] (1999).
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Carohn Cornell|Cornell, Carohn]] 1989. Script-writing for English second language classes in Cape Town: a contribution to liberat
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...n, G.]] (ed). 2004. Inheriting the flame: new writing on community arts in South Africa. Cape Town: [[Arts and Media Access Centre]] ([[AMAC]]).
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...Villiers, Aart]] 1987. [[Bartho Smit]]-vertalings. Reviewed in: ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', 1(2):90-93.
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...Afrikaanse dramas. Unpublished master’s thesis. Pretoria: [[University of South Africa]].
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] [[Andrew Foley|Foley, Andrew]] 1994. Interview with [[Athol Fugard]]. ''New Contrast 88'', 22(4):63-69.
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...ren! My Africa!]]''. Unpublished master’s thesis. Pretoria : University of South Africa.
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  • ...onsists of two main sections, two providing general overviews of the South African context: ...ticism in South Africa''' (including a '''link''' to an ''[[Index to South African Theatre and Media Critics, Commentators and Reviewers]]'').
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  • ...ith a strong emphasis on literary fiction, memoir and current affairs from South Africa, the UK and the Commonwealth. Among them interviews with playwrights == [[The African Film Database]] ==
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  • ...and Katerina Dafina Hauptfleisch (néé Du Plessis). His cousin, the South African stage, radio and film actor [[Pieter Hauptfleisch]], was an early inspirati ...ew drama department, [[Jo Gevers]]. Further studies at the [[University of South Africa]] ([[UNISA]]) led to an M.A. in English in 1972 with the thesis ''Gr
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  • ...[[South_African_Theatre/Bibliography|A Bibliography of South African South African Theatre and Performance]] ...Athol Fugard]], in [[Alan Lennox-Short|Lennox-Short, Alan]]. ''English and South Africa''. Cape Town: Nasou. 86-87.
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  • ...9 he was seconded to [[Gaumont-British Africa]] and directed ''Chisoko the African'' for the Roan Antelope Copper Mines in what was then Northern Rhodesia. ...Ambrose Brown]], received an excellent review from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times and was shown at the 1951 Edinburgh Film Festival.
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