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• Ari Sitas
  ...D on the emergence of a social movement of trade union workers on the East Rand in 1984. He was a founder member of the [[Junction Avenue Theatre Company]], and among his productions with them have been ''[[Will of a Rebel]]'',
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• ESAT Venues E
  Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]] [[Earl's Court Garden Theatre]], Johannesburg
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• Whistlers of Art
  Also referred to as the [[Whistlers of Art Project]] or [[Whistlers of Art Theatre Group]] ==The company==
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• Elaine Lee
  ...g/wiki/Elaine_Lee_%28actress%29] was a South African-born Australian-based theatre and television actress and entertainer best known for her role of Vera Coll She started acting in the [[East Rand Theatre Club]] in Benoni and worked on radio and stage in South Africa for a number
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• Benoni Town Hall
  ...ndrik Hanekom]] and [[Mathilde Hanekom]] in 1938. Used by the [[East Rand Theatre Club]] for its productions after 1944. Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
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• Barnyard Theatres
  ...ing. The result was the birth of the original [[Barnyard Theatres|Barnyard Theatre]] in 1996. == The Barnyard Theatre , Knysna ==
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• Danie Odendaal
  Born on the East Rand and matriculated there. He studied at the [[University of Stellenbosch]], t ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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• The Sacred Flame
  ...ns as ''[[Die Heilige Vlam]]'' and performed by [[André Huguenet]] and his company in their first sponsored event, under the auspices of [[African Theatres]], Presented by the [[Brian Brooke Company]] at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in 1949. Settimgs by [[Frank Graves]].
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• The Clover Play
  ...ermaritzburg in 1986. The aim of the play was to counter propaganda by the company claiming that the strike is over. The national tour was part of a fundraisi ...performed at Wits’ Box Theatre, as well as in venues in the Vaal and East Rand.
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• They Walk Alone
  ...atrix Lehmann in the part of Emmy, and then transferred to the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1939. [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23590457-they-walk-alone] ...ontine Sagan]] for the [[Johannesburg Repertory Society]] at the [[Library Theatre]] in Johannesburg in September 1939.
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• ESAT Venues G
  Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]] [[Gaiety Company]]
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• Love's a Luxury
  A theatre man, who seeks a refuge in the country away from the women around him, make ...y Theatre Society]] performed from 22 July to 2 August 1952 at the [[Labia Theatre]].
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• Harry Vine
  ...they both appeared in ''[[I.D.B.]]'' (1912), made for the [[African Cinema Company]]. His full name was [[Harry Vine Gandar]] and he was the son of Henry J. ..., was Laurence Gandar, the highly respected anti-apartheid editor of the [[Rand Daily Mail]]. (FO)
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• Guild Theatre
  ...'''") is a playhouse facility, producing and presenting performing arts in East London and the broader Buffalo City Municipality in the Eastern Cape. Found ...gan in a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War, where the young East London soldier passed the hours writing a pantomime.
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• Florence Creagh
  ...the Pavilion Theatre in Edinburgh to ''Daddy’s Boy'' (1908) at the Empire Theatre in Mossley. Born Florence Elizabeth Dentry, she was the daughter of a scho == Contribution to South African Theatre & Film ==
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• Caroline Frances Cooke
  ...Polyscope Company in Chicago and then for the American Film Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, Cooke moved with him and acted in many of the shorts made ...associate producer. The couple returned to the United States via the Far East. In 1926 they both appeared in ''The Bells'' (James Young/1926), with Lion
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• Edith Cartwright
  ...th Cartwright''' (b. Chelsea, London, 19/04/1880 – d. St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, 25/05/1969) was a British actress. ...Morley on 19 February of that year in ''The Squire of Dames'' at the Bijou Theatre in Melbourne. While the number of performances was limited because of inju
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• Night Must Fall
  ...'[[Doodvonnis]]'' by [[Willem Kemp]] and performed by the [[André Huguenet Company]] in 19**. Huguenet’s choice of this psychological thriller was because o 1948: Presented by the [[Brian Brooke Company]] with [[Brian Brooke]] as Danny, [[Lawrence Ayris]] as the detective. Dire
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• Harry B. Waring
  ...ale'' and ''Twelfth Night'' staged by Harley Granville Barker at the Savoy Theatre in London. He also acknowledged his debt to Edith Craig, who cast him in ' ...r [[African Film Productions]]. In December of that year he travelled to East Africa to entertain the troops stationed there.
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• Tommy Crellin
  ...[[African Theatre Trust]]’s [[I.W. Schlesinger]] was the President of the Rand Motor Cycling Club and would award the Schlesinger Vase to the winner. [[T Return to [[South_African Theatre/Personalities|South African Personalities]]
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• Jem Turner
  ...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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• Julius Royston
  ...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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• Alma Vaughan
  ...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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• Martha Rowson
  ...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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• Stanley Raphael
  ...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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• Kimber "Tubby" Phillips
  ...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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• Candida
  ...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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• Wait Until Dark
  ...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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• Percy Baneshik
  ...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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• Jeanette Sherwin
  ...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
  '''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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• Tommy Atkins
  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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• The Happiest Days of Your Life
  ...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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• Bladon Peake
  ...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 Arts Centre
  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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• Margaret Inglis
  ...death she married [[Robert Langford]], with whom she founded a theatrical company. ==Contribution to South African theatre, film and media==
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• Naomi Rutherford
  ...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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• Leon Gluckman
  ...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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• Barney Simon
  ...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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• Anthony Farmer
  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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• Graham Weir
  ...the musical evenings regularly held at their home and the amateur theatre company and choir founded by his parents. His first stage role was in ''[[Oliver Tw ...0. Then he went to England to dodge the draft, before returning to work in theatre in a variety of capacities.
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• Taubie Kushlick
  She became involved with amateur theatre in Port Elizabeth and produced and acted in many plays. After her marriage In 1946 she started her own professional company [[Taubie Kushlick Theatrical Productions]] with ''[[The Little Foxes]]''. S
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• André Huguenet
  ...outh African performers of the 20th century - a bilingual actor, director, theatre manager and journalist - impatient and crabby at times, but an inspirationa ...), in July 1926, he joined the [[Paul de Groot Toneelgeselskap]] ("Theatre Company") in Potchefstroom as the juvenile lead. It was founded by De Groot and [[H
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• Aladdin
  ...of the earliest dramatisations in England was done by John O'Keefe for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in 1788. The titles vary greatly, depending on the company, venue, etc.
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• Joseph Albrecht
  ...s Trust]] and when, in 1914, he received an offer from the recently formed company he decided to come out to South Africa, shooting footage of mining operatio ...o stay, AFP sent Albrecht to British Sound Film Productions, a Schlesinger company based in England, to study the new technology and in November 1929 he retur
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• Leonard Schach
  ...ed to theatre as a career. Up to 1964 he lived in South Africa, working in theatre, before emigrating to Israel in 1965. Just before he was due to fly to Sout = His contribution to South African theatre =
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• The Taming of the Shrew
  1906: Performed by [[William Haviland]] and his company in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, during July and August, as part of a sea ...to raise money for a new theatre in Johannesburg to replace the [[Standard Theatre]] and break the monopoly of the [[African Consolidated Theatres]]. [[Margar
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• Amateur Theatre in South Africa
  ...P.J. du Toit]] (1988). For some other aspects, see also '''[[South African Theatre/Overview]]'''. =[[Amateur]] and Amateur Theatre=
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• Twentieth Century
  Return To [[ESAT Chronology|A Chronology of South African Theatre and Performance]] Items printed in '''bold''' indicate [[South African]] '''theatre and performance events'''.
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