Steven Berkoff

(19*-) British actor, director and dramatist. *** He starred in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis together with Henry Goodman, Fiona Ramsay and Ian Roberts. It was directed by Richard E. Grant and Mike O’Brien and staged at the Market in 1980. Graham Wright brought the Baxter production of his Decadence starring Bo Petersen and John Maytham (replacing Fiona Ramsay and Henry Goodman who had played the roles in Cape Town) with direction by Ron Smerczak to the Wits Theatre in 1984 after it ran at the Durban Alhambra. His Greek, directed by Mavis Taylor was staged at the Baxter and then at Upstairs in 1986. In 200* he came to South Africa to direct ** and to perform in his own ***.

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