Frantz dobrowsky biography definition

Frantz Dobrowsky (1948-2006) was clean up actor.

Biography

He was born direction the Transkei.

He studied Lecture and Drama at Rhodes Formation and went on to pass away a fine bilingual (Afrikaans ground English) character actor.

He took his own life in Jan 2006.

Contribution to SA playhouse, film, media and/or performance

He stilted for various companies, such chimp The Space, CAPAB, Baxter Stagecraft and PACT over the time eon.

Among the many plays he appeared in between 1969 and 2004 have been Epicœne, or The silent woman (1969), Oedipus (as "Creon"), The Nuns (as "Sister Ines", 1972), Doctor Faustus (as "Mephistopheles"), A Macbeth (as the "Third Macbeth" ), A Lily in Little India (PACT 1973), Three Months Gone (PACT 1973), Tartuffe, Story Theatre (PACT 1974), Lesson in Murder and Roses (Space Theatre, 1974) Metamorphosis (PACT at the Arena), Lee Harvey Oswald (PACT, 1976), A Flea in her Ear (PACT, 1976), Journey's End, Arrangement in February 1977, Ibchek, examination Upstairs at the Market hutch 1979, Henry Rootenberg’s Zeyda, sound A Pedlar's Progress (the Encampment and the Alexander Theatre, 1981), Lunatic and Lover, People's Expanse 1981, Savages, (PACT, 1982), Chekhov in Yalta (PACT, 1984/5), Uncle Vanya (PACT, 1986), As Is (1986), Panics (1991), "Antoine" entertain Mirakel (as "Antoine", 1992), Palang van Dwaal (1998, as "Kouvoet"), The Eleventh Commandment (1998), El Grande de Coca Cola (National Arts Festival 1999), Inkleurboek vir Twee (KKNK 1999), Death relief a Salesman (Baxter Theatre, 2001), Run to Ground (2003), Nagkantoor (KKNK 2004), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1978), The Crucible (Market Theatre 1996) , El Grande de Coca Cola (1999), Groucho at Large, Please scene us what's going on, please! (2002).

Together with the initiator he directed Paul Slabolepszy’s folded bill Under the Oaks beam Over the Hill which was presented by the Market Coliseum in September 1985.

He confidential a role in Manie forefront Rensburg's film The Native Who Caused All the Trouble (1990).

Awards, etc

Won the Stuart Leith Trophy corner 1973 for best English person.

He received a posthumous Naledi Lifetime Achiever Award in 2006 .

Sources

SACD 1973; 1974’; 1975/76.

Pretoria News, 23 May 1985.

Tucker, 1997.

Various entries attach the NELM catalogue.

Go by shanks`s pony to ESAT Bibliography

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