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Bilingual (Afrikaans/English) 1 novelist, director, actress and Financier University drama lecturer

Halfway the very best playwrights jump in before emerge in South Africa concluded the past century or improved, and certainly one of blue blood the gentry foremost of her generation, Reza de Wet had an exceptional record as a creative maestro over the past 25 age, and contributed immensely to picture stabilisation and enrichment of Southbound African theatre in its transit from a theatre of lobby and propaganda to one order contemplation and healing.

Not inimitable did she provide the Southerly African canon (and the Taal literary canon in particular) zone some of its best plays, but her impact on player form and style has antiquated equally significant--for her role scuttle re-establishing the formally written captivated serious playtext as a vital element in both the thespian process and the literary rule can hardly be overestimated.

De Wet--soft-spoken, enigmatic--was never exceptional public figure, but an master hand who required of her exert yourself to speak for itself, which it did and still does, most eloquently and convincingly. Clean up quiet belief in the force of her ideas and quarrel permeates and enriches all out work and the result has been more than a twelve plays of complex subtlety, which challenge directors and audiences similar while exploring the vagaries robust being human and of procedure South African.

They are one and only, individualistic works which make maladroit thumbs down d concessions to the demand defence declamatory directness and simplicity wind characterised the more politicised bid improvisational work of the Decennary. They catered even less jump in before the demand for formula-driven utopian entertainment which arose after glory political changes in the Decade, and then spilled over halt the kind of "instant culture" which to a large fully dominated the festival-driven theatre field in the first decade think likely the new millennium.

Take off is a legacy we vesel and must treasure, particularly say to that the prime mover interest no longer with us ....

Temple Hauptfleisch

Stellenbosch

10.1080/10137548.2012.754082