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ANTOINETTE KELLERMANN is a doyenne of South African theatre – a highly respected stage (and television) actress. She graduated with a B. Dram-degree from Stellenbosch University in 1974, making her professional stage debut in 1975 for a Namibian theatre company SWARUK. Between 1975 and 1998, Kellermann honed her skills working for various provincial theatre boards. Some of her most memorable stage performances of the last decade include roles in Ek, Anna van Wyk, Macbeth, Titus: The Fall of Rome, Aars!, Mamma Medea, Quartet, Boklied, Romeo & Julia and ’n Lang dagreis na die nag (an Afrikaans translation of Eugene O Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night). She was also a cast member of the Handspring Puppet Company which toured internationally with the production Faustus in Africa. The actress made her television debut in 1992 in Afrikaans drama, Glaskasteel. Thereafter she also appeared in productions such as Sleurstroom, Paradys, Song vir Katryn (series 1 en 2) and day dramas Villa Rosa and Egoli. Kellermann had a starring role in the 2005 drama series Known Gods. Kellermann has played male characters in various theatre productions. These include roles in Breyten Breytenbach’s Boklied and an Afrikaans translation of Shakespeare’sThe Tempest, titled, Die Storm. In 2010 Kellermann will be touring to various arts festivals in her one-woman play, As die broek pas/Man to man, directed by Marthinus Basson and in which she plays a woman who lives life as a man. Kellermann was awarded with a Dalro prize for her role in Boklied and received the Absa prize for her portrayal of Prospero in Die Storm. She also received the Kanna-awards for best actress for ‘n Lang dagreis na die nag (in 2008) and for As die broek pas (in 2010). The South African Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded her a Medal of Honour for her contribution to Drama and Stage Art in June 2008. On their website they described Kellermann as: a versatile, modest, sensitive and brilliant actress that approaches her roles without any fear and executes her roles with the utmost skill, passion and style.” Kellermann lectures in the Drama department at the University of Stellenbosch. |
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MARTHINUS BASSON started his theatrical career in 1974 as props maker at the Cape Performing Arts Board and as actor-cum-stage-manager at The Space Theatre, in Cape Town. Since 1985 he has established himself as a director/designer and has worked in all theatrical genres. His work includes Waarom is die wat voor toyi-toyi altyd so vet? by Antjie Krog; Johnny Cockroach by Breyten Breytenbach; The Fall of the House of Usher and Boks for ARCA in Gent, Belgium; six operas for the Spier Summer Festival; a contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona for the 2003 Maynardville season in Cape Town; Astor Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires for the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the musicals Cabaret and Boy meets Boy, and has worked extensively in educational, industrial and community theatre. As member of the Vleis, Rys & Aartappels company he directed and designed new plays by Belgian playwrights in 2003: Aars! and Romeo & Julia by Peter Verhelst and Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye. His production of Tall Horse for Handspring/Sogolon Company toured to Germany and America after its opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. He has been nominated 53 times as director/designer/actor and is the recipient of 36 awards, including the Standard Bank Young Artists Award in 1989, The South African Academy’s Award for Contribution to South African Theatre and the Nederburg Opera Award for Cavaliera Rusticana. In June 2009 he directed and designed Beethoven’s Fidelio for Opera Queensland in Australia and at the beginning of 2010 he was the director of Anthony and Cleopatra for the Maynardville season. Basson, lectures at the Drama Department at the University of Stellenbosch |
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