RSC training for South African bursary winners
Two South African actors have won a bursary to travel to Stratford-upon-Avon to develop their Shakespeare performance skills.
Nkosinathi Gaar and Timothy Redpath have been awarded the Brett Goldin Bursary award for 2012.
The bursary was set up after the actor Brett Goldin and his friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, both 28, were brutally murdered on 16 April 2006, just days before Brett was due to leave for Stratford-upon-Avon to perform Guildenstern in Hamlet at the RSC.
Brett's mother, Denise Goldin, said: 'It has been a joy to see how it has benefited the young actors who have been through the programme.
'Besides enhancing their own performances these actors have brought back to South Africa their passion for Shakespeare and used this to encourage and inspire upcoming actors.'
In July next year Nkosinathi and Timothy will travel to Stratford-upon-Avon. Based in the RSC's Artist Development Department, they will attend warm-ups, voice and verse classes, workshops, rehearsals and sessions with a director.
The RSC, The Actors Centre and the Baxter Theatre Centre established the Brett Goldin Bursary, helped by donations from South African-born actors Sir Antony Sher and Honorary RSC Associate Dame Janet Suzman, to give other young South African actors the opportunity which Brett was denied.
Photo: Bursary winners Nkosinathi Gaar (left) and Timothy Redpath (right) with Brett Goldin's mother, Denise.