Location: South Africa
Member Since: Nov. 11, 2009
James Whyle
Biography
James Whyle once made a bad movie with Patrick Swayze, and now earns his living in Johannesburg inscribing runes on an electric stone. His first play, National Madness, based on his army experiences, was performed at the Market and Baxter Theatres in the early eighties and published in a collection - Market Plays (1). His second play, Hellhound, was performed at the Market Theatre in 1992. A story, Sapper Fijn and the Cow appears in The Penguin Book of Contemporary South African Short Stories. (2)
A radio drama, Dancing with the Dead, was broadcast in the U.K. in February 2002 on Radio 4. Richard E Grant played the leading role. A second BBC commission, A Man Called Rejoice, was re-broadcast for the third time in May 2004. It has been published as Rejoice Burning in a collection, New South African Plays, by Aurora Metro Publications. (3)
1 - Edited by Stephen Gray - Publisher AD. Donker. 1st published 1986, reprinted 1991. ISBN 0 86852 070 5.
2 - Penguin Books 1993. ISBN 0 140 237267
3 - Ed. Charles J. Fourie. ISBN 0-9542330–1-8
A radio drama, Dancing with the Dead, was broadcast in the U.K. in February 2002 on Radio 4. Richard E Grant played the leading role. A second BBC commission, A Man Called Rejoice, was re-broadcast for the third time in May 2004. It has been published as Rejoice Burning in a collection, New South African Plays, by Aurora Metro Publications. (3)
1 - Edited by Stephen Gray - Publisher AD. Donker. 1st published 1986, reprinted 1991. ISBN 0 86852 070 5.
2 - Penguin Books 1993. ISBN 0 140 237267
3 - Ed. Charles J. Fourie. ISBN 0-9542330–1-8
Where to find James Whyle online
Website: http://www.icon.co.za/~whyle/
Twitter: jameswhyle
Blog: http://jameswhyle.blogspot.com/
Twitter: jameswhyle
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- jameswhyle: The computer was instructed to start Zuma's total at minus 800, but after a manual count Mbeki was overthrown. http://t.co/RooNXU3u
- jameswhyle: Writing Adrift in the World by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books http://t.co/h4sWRsgp
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Blog: http://jameswhyle.blogspot.com/