Obituary

Curtain call: Life of a theatrical legend, Dawn Lindberg

Actor, director, producer, activist and creator of major awards programmes, Dawn Lindberg helped transform theatre in SA, writes Chris Barron

13 December 2020 - 00:00 By Chris Barron

A less likely activist could hardly have been imagined than fine arts student Dawn Silver as she wafted around the Wits University campus in the early 1960s in bare feet and kaftan with flowers in her hair, saying that all she wanted was peace and brotherhood...

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