Brett Goldin who played Guildenstern in the Cape Town performances of Hamlet was murdered on Easter Saturday. The Baxter Theatre Centre Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Actors’ Centre in Johannesburg are setting up a bursary in Brett’s name. The bursary will allow a young South African actor to come to the UK to enjoy a degree of classical training, in part with the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Sir Antony Sher, who appeared at the Baxter Theatre last year in Primo, for which he received the prestigious Fleur du Cap Award, has donated the 10,000 Rand prize money (approx £900) from the award to help initiate the bursary. RSC Honorary Associate Artist and Director of this production of Hamlet, Janet Suzman, has also donated R10,000 towards the bursary.
We are now inviting donations towards the bursary. If you would like to contribute please send your cheques made payable to the Royal Shakespeare Company to:
The Brett Goldin Bursary
c/o Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford upon Avon
Warwickshire
United Kingdom
CV37 6BB
Please mark your cheque on the reverse for the Brett Goldin Bursary.
