Frantz dobrowsky biography samples

Frantz Dobrowsky () was an actor.

Biography

He was born in the Transkei.

He studied Speech and Drama at Rhodes University and went on to become a fine bilingual (Afrikaans and English) character actor.

He took his own life in January

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

He worked for various companies, such as The Space, CAPAB, Baxter Theatre and PACT over the years.

Among the many plays he appeared in between and have been Epicœne, or The silent woman (), Oedipus (as "Creon"), The Nuns (as "Sister Ines", ), Doctor Faustus (as "Mephistopheles"), A Macbeth (as the "Third Macbeth" ), A Lily in Little India (PACT ), Three Months Gone (PACT ), Tartuffe, Story Theatre (PACT ), Lesson in Blood and Roses (Space Theatre, ) Metamorphosis (PACT at the Arena), Lee Harvey Oswald (PACT, ), A Flea in her Ear (PACT, ), Journey's End, PACT in February , Ibchek, at Upstairs at the Market in , Henry Rootenberg’s Zeyda, or A Pedlar's Progress (the Laager and the Alexander Theatre, ), Lunatic and Lover, People's Space , Savages, (PACT, ), Chekhov in Yalta (PACT, /5), Uncle Vanya (PACT, ), As Is (), Panics (), "Antoine" in Mirakel (as "Antoine", ), Palang van Dwaal (, as "Kouvoet"), The Eleventh Commandment (), El Grande de Coca Cola (National Arts Festival ), Inkleurboek vir Twee (KKNK ), Death of a Salesman (Baxter Theatre, ), Run to Ground (), Nagkantoor (KKNK ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (), The Crucible (Market Theatre ) , El Grande de Coca Cola (), Groucho at Large, Please tell us what's going on, please! ().

Together with the author he directed Paul Slabolepszy’s double bill Under the Oaks and Over the Hill which was presented by the Market Theatre in September

He had a role in Manie van Rensburg's film The Native Who Caused All the Trouble ().

Awards, etc

Won the Stuart Leith Trophy in for best English actor.

He received a posthumous Naledi Lifetime Achiever Award in .

Sources

SACD ; ’; /

Pretoria News, 23 May

Tucker,

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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