Brian Astbury

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Founder of South Africa's Legendary Space Theatre - the first non-racial professional theatre/art centre under Apartheid. In the 80's he settled in London with his wife Yvonne Bryceland - South Africa's greatest actress. Here he began to teach, first at LAMDA, later at Mountview and E15, where he formulated the exercises described in Trusting the Actor with the help of hundreds of young actors.

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- "a unique figure in British theatre. Provocative, controversial, doggedly inspiring and fearless in his pursuit of the truth, he empowers and questions with equal passion. Immune to the distractions of pretence, he has been the pivotal teacher, enabler and mentor for me and countless others."  says director of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris