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• Shaluza Max
  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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• Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali
  ...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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• Mary en June
  == 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
  [[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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• Special Thanks to Guests from Afar
  == Performance history in South Africa == ''New Writing Programme'', ([[Roy Sargeant]]) [[Artscape]] 2012.
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• Temba Theatre Company
  ...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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• Ian Bruce
  ...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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• Theatre director
  ...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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• English Academy Review
  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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• Four Walls
  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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• Green Man Flashing
  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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• Sanlam-prys vir Afrikaanse Teater
  ...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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• Some Mothers' Sons
  ...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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• Brothers in Blood
  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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• Ryk Hattingh
  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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• David Graver
  == 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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• Andrew Michau
  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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• Hostile Takeover
  ...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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• Henry Seton Merriman
  ...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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• Oscar Petersen
  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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• Empire Palace of Varieties
  ...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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• Herman Charles Bosman
  ...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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• Greg Homann
  ...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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• Institute for Creative Arts
  ...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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• George H. Cossins
  ...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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• Leila Henriques
  ...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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• ESAT Venues N
  Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]] [[NLSA]] See '''[[National Library of South Africa]]'''
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• Achmat Dangor
  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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• James Whyle
  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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• Language struggle
  ...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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• First Physical Theatre Company
  ...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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• David Stein
  ...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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• Geraldine Naidoo
  ...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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• Fatima Dike
  ...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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• William Pretorius
  ...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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• André
  ...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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• Everybody Else (is fucking perfect)
  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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• Liz Mills
  ...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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• Michael Williams
  ...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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• As the Koekie Crumbles
  == 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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• Roy Sargeant
  ...[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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• South African Opinion
  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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• Edith Cartwright
  ...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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• Eugenie Magnus
  ...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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• S.E. Hudson
  ...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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• Brett Pyper
  ...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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• Albert Wertheim
  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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• Jane Taylor
  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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• Henque Heymans
  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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• Sandor Konya
  ...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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