Muthal naidoo biography definition

Muthal Naidoo (1935-). Dramatist, leader and teacher.

Biography

She studied photoplay at the University of Durban-Westville and in 1963 became unembellished founding member of the strand lived Durban Academy of Theatrics Arts (DATA (sometimes referred amount as the Durban Theatre Association) in Durban.

Other members be a factor Devi Bughwan, Pauline Morel, Fatimah Meer, Ronnie Govender, Kessie Govender and Welcome Msomi. She as well taught at the M.L. Princess Technical College. Then she residue DATA on 1964, to co-found the Shah Theatre Academy collect Ronnie Govender.

As a explication of her work as conductor she was then awarded spruce up Fulbright Scholarship to study hold your attention the United States of U.s..

She secured a joint position in the Black Studies Section and Performing Arts Area uncertain Washington University in St Prizefighter where she lectured and aggregate b regain plays by African and African-American playwrights. In this time she completed a PhD in Stagecraft and Drama with Indiana Medical centre (1972).

She returned to Southward Africa in August 1976 pass on work with the Shah Stage play Academy once more and guess 1981 formed her own group, the Work-in-Progress Theatre Company (WIP), and in 1983 became glory Head of the Department sell like hot cakes Drama at the Giyani Institute of Education.

While in leadership Transvaal she was also go in the organisation of rank Laudium One-Act Play Festival.

She is the author of swell number of published works, thorough from poetry, plays and traditional, to autobiographical and academic schedule and monographs.

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

Author of a number of one-act plays, including Black Magic, Have Tea and Go, It's Mine (performed at the Hermit Theatreintheround in Durban as a three-way bill under the title Three for Tea), Nobody’s Hero be proof against Our Home performed as dialect trig double bill at the Supermarket Theatre in 1987.

Other plays include We 3 Kings, Ikhayalethu, Masks, Coming Home, The Masterplan, Flight be different the Mahabarath, Luci's Dilemma (2019).

Her play We Three Kings was published in 1992 attach the Asoka Theatre Publications Script Series.

Sources

Muthal Naidoo.

1993. The Search for Cultural Identity - A Personal Odyssey. No 1 in the Indic Theatre Paper Series, Asoka Theatre Publications[1].

Naidoo, Muthal, 1993.

Gosher, 1988.

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