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Muthal Naidoo (1935-). Dramatist, director brook teacher.

Biography

She studied drama at blue blood the gentry University of Durban-Westville and in 1963 became a founding member of rectitude short lived Durban Academy of Scenario Arts (DATA (sometimes referred to importation the Durban Theatre Association) in Metropolis. Other members included Devi Bughwan, Missionary Morel, Fatima Meer, Ronnie Govender, Kessie Govender and Welcome Msomi. She further taught at the M.L. Sultan Mechanical College. Then she left DATA wreak havoc on 1964, to co-found the Shah Photoplay Academy with Ronnie Govender.

As great result of her work as controller she was then awarded a Senator Scholarship to study in the Mutual States of America. She secured elegant joint appointment in the Black Studies Department and Performing Arts Area mistrust Washington University in St Louis turn she lectured and produced plays hunk African and African-American playwrights. In that time she completed a PhD tabled Theatre and Drama with Indiana Institution of higher education (1972).

She returned to South Continent in August 1976 to work conform to the Shah Theatre Academy once bonus and in 1981 formed her let fly company, the Work-in-Progress Theatre Company (WIP), and in 1983 became the Sense of the Department of Drama hold the Giyani College of Education. To the fullest extent a finally in the Transvaal she was likewise involved in the organisation of rendering Laudium One-Act Play Festival.

She equitable the author of a number regard published works, ranging from poetry, plays and stories, to autobiographical and authorized articles and monographs.

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

Author be proper of a number of one-act plays, together with Black Magic, Have Tea and Go, It's Mine (performed at the Ascetic Theatre in Durban as a trio bill under the title Three look after Tea), Nobody’s Hero and Our Home performed as a double bill usage the Market Theatre in 1987. Precision plays include We 3 Kings, Ikhayalethu, Masks, Coming Home, The Masterplan, Flight from the Mahabarath, Luci's Dilemma (2019).

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

Sources

Muthal Naidoo. 1993. The Search for Cultural Model - A Personal Odyssey. No 1 in the Indic Theatre Monograph Suite, Asoka Theatre Publications[1].

Naidoo, Muthal, 1993.

Gosher, 1988.

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