Bryceland, Yvonne

Bryceland, Yvonne

▪ South African actress
original name  Yvonne Heilbuth  
born Nov. 18, 1925, Cape Town, S.Af.
died Jan. 13, 1992, London, Eng.

      South African actress who was known both for her inspired interpretations of the antiapartheid works of South African playwright Athol Fugard (Fugard, Athol) and for defying racial segregation in South Africa with her second husband, Brian Astbury, by founding the country's first nonracial theatre, the Space Theatre, in Cape Town (1972).

      Bryceland worked as a newspaper librarian and an amateur actress before making her professional acting debut in Stage Door in 1947, but she had only moderate success until she joined the Cape Performing Arts Board (1964). In 1969 she triumphed in Fugard's People Are Living There and Boesman and Lena, in which she made her London debut and then toured Europe. The collaboration with Fugard resulted in several more plays, most notably Orestes, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Hello and Goodbye, and The Road to Mecca, in which she made her American debut. Her repertoire also included Dario Fo's One Woman Plays, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and Euripides' Medea. In 1978 she moved to London, where she joined the National Theatre.

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