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Internationalist Theatre staged productions by dramatists including Pirandello, Genet, and Tennessee Williams who belong to "the continental, non-realistic, symbolically orientated drama of this century (20th) and..proved most uncongenial to the tunnel visioned repertoire builders" of British theatre
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to create a multi-racial and multi-national theatre company for actors living in London of any racial or national background, of any accent, performing drama classics as well as contemporary works not especially written for multi-racial and multi-national casts. It was first announced on 9 April 1981
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Her activities as an anti-apartheid and feminist activist in “the then underdeveloped and extremely conservative” South Africa eventually motivated her move to the UK. While residing in North London, she worked for Theatro Technis, a Greek Cypriot theatre company that focused on sociopolitical
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The digital records of Rockas' work as an actress and theatre practitioner are held by the Scottish Theatre Archive supplemented by Angelique Rockas File: Visual Archive of theatre work, film work, and projects
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in which she played the lead part of Annabella. She financed the production herself and enlisted the then unknown
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Christian traditions, and was taught to honour her Greek cultural heritage. She received her early education at
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Documentary about the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus and subsequent illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus
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Informationen zu Angelique Rockas Gründerin der Theatercompagnie Internationalist Theatre
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with a group of debutantes raising funds for Saheti School, a Greek school located in
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about Yugoslavia/Kosovo film project is now held at the British Film Institute
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The Angelique Rockas Archive of Correspondence with film directors including:
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The records of Rockas' work as an actress and founder/artistic director of
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On film, Rockas has appeared in secondary roles: the Maintenance Woman in
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is an actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded the theatre company
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A young activist, Rockas appeared on the June 1970 front page of the
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Actress: stage and film, theatre practitioner and founder of
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where she participated in Greek classical productions.
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In London, Rockas began acting under the direction of
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In Greece she has played the lead role, Ms Ortiki in
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Etudes Helleniques Vol 16 Issue 2-page 107. 509:"Angelique Rockas: Strong, Bold and Unafraid" 16:South African actress, producer and activist 614:. 5 June 1970 – via Internet Archive. 352: 1222: 862: 588:Little Theatre, Univ of Cape Town (1976). 31: 1144: 1125: 483:Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv Akademie der Künste 205:Rockas also played Io in a production of 984:(in Spanish). Youcanprint. p. 600. 981:Cronologia del Cinema - Tomo 2 1961-1990 977: 748:. APGRD CLassics Centre Univ of Oxford. 652:"Angelique Rockas: bold theatre pioneer" 540:"Angelique Rockas: bold theatre pioneer" 362: 79: 1313:Opposition to apartheid in South Africa 1303:University of the Witwatersrand alumni 1290: 1071:from the original on 15 September 2019 538:Heather Walker, ed. 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Index

Angelique Rockas as Medea
Medea
University of the Witwatersrand
University of Cape Town
Internationalist Theatre

Garry Cooper
Miss Julie
Internationalist Theatre
Athol Fugard
Boksburg
Greek Orthodox
St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
University of Cape Town
Star
Germiston
Greek War of Independence
George Bizos
status quo
Greek Cypriots
Greek tragedies
comedies
George Eugeniou
Theatro Technis
Prometheus Bound
Attilas '74
Medea
Euripides

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