Title: Angelique Rockas Content: Angelique Rockas (born in Boksburg, South Africa)https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Angelique_Rockas is an actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded Internationalist Theatre in the UK with patron Athol Fugard.https://www.flickr.com/photos/angelique_rockas/37118589680/in/album-72157660952236708/ The company featured multi-racial and multi-national productions of great European classics starting in 1981.The Stage Editorial April 1981 Practitioner Focus: Angelique Rockas https://www.dramaandtheatre.co.uk/practical/article/practitioner-focus- angelique-rockas Drama and Theatre October 2021https://archive.org/details/TimeOutTheCamp_201809Profile http://collections- search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceArchive/110078562https://archive.org/details/thesouthafricaninterviewangeliquerockasboldtheatrepioneer4 "a historic example of theatre work addressing representation in the most valuable manner"Drama and Theatre Oct 2021 https://archive.today/20211016134435/https://www.dramaandtheatre.co.uk/opinion/article/editorial- autumn-term-2-2021-22 As an actress Rockas played roles that challenged casting cliches.https://archive.org/details/the-south-african-print-edition ==Career== ===Stage=== "Rockas attracted admiration as an actress for her strong interpretation of roles". BFI archive profile http://collections- search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceArchive/110078562:Medea (play) with Theatro Technishttps://ia802802.us.archive.org/25/items/timesreviewofmedeajpg/The%20Times%20review%20of%20Medea%20by%20Ned%20Chaillet%2021%20Jan%201982%20Times%20Dogital%20archive%20Gale.pnghttps://archive.org/details/ScreenshotSundayTelegraphWomensWorldsMedeaPaint_201808http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/archive/Gen- Col/Eur/Eur.Med.1982%25283038%2529/15338 'Miss Julie' with her own company Internationalist Theatre.https://archive.org/details/MorningStarProfoundConflictArticle https://archive.org/details/ScreenShotTheStageMissJulie_201808 Other key performances are: Emma in The Camp by Griselda Gambaro https://archive.org/details/elcamporeviewbyspareribsection4digitalarchive_202001https://archive.org/details/VogueMexcoCoverJuly1992_201810and Annabella in 'Tis Pity She`s a Whore'https://archive.org/details/ScrrengrabTisPityShesAWhore which was also Rockas`s first theatre production under the banner of 'New Theatre' directed by Declan Donnellan ,and now listed as one of the major productions of Tis Pity for the decade of the 1980`s in the 20th century https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vECJAwAAQBAJ&pg;=PT43&lpg;=PT43&dq;=tis+pity+she%60s+a+whore+1980+declan+donnellan&source;=bl&ots;=5hDOW0heTq&sig;=ACfU3U3ONq7PqTw8UQYggGEc0uqljb4IMA&hl;=en&sa;=X&ved;=2ahUKEwjNk8Ch3rDnAhXUnVwKHStlAbc4FBDoATAAegQIChAB#v=onepage&q;=tis%20pity%20she%60s%20a%20whore%201980%20declan%20donnellan&f;=false John Ford by Martin Wiggins Further stage roles include Carmen in 'The Balcony' ,https://archive.org/details/TaylorMadeTheatreTheStageAnnMorleyPriestman Yvette in 'Mother Courage ' , https://archive.org/details/CityLImitsReviewOfMotherCourageByJuliaPascal Miriam in 'In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel' ,https://archive.org/details/spellbindingtokyobarthestar_202001https://archive.org/details/LindsayAndersonLetterTokyoBar, Lady Macbeth , Tatiana in Gorky`s 'Enemies'. https://archive.org/details/PaulLewensteinReviewOfEnemiesCamdenNewsJournal https://theatricalia.com/person/200e/angelique-rockas Work at London`s Theatro Technis under the name of Angeliki : Io in 'Prometheus Bound',https://archive.org/details/prometheusboundtimeout020 Myrrhine in 'Lysistrata', Paphlagoonia in the adaptation of Aristophanes 'The Knights' 'Oh Democracy', 'Dowry with 2 White Doves',https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=angelique%20rockas&retrievecountrycounts;=false and Kyproula in 'The National Engagement',https://archive.org/details/AndreasMarkosAndAngeliqueRockasInEthnikosAravonas all directed by George Eugeniou.https://theatricalia.com/person/2dw1/angelique-rockasangeliki-rockas ===At the British Library=== * Angelique Rockas British Library archive at Western Manuscripts * ===The National Archives (United Kingdom)=== * Angelique Rockas ===Film and Television === She played Ms Ortiki in Thodoros Maragos TV Film 'Emmones Idees' on Greek television ERT.https://archive.org/details/EleftherotypiaArtsPageAngeliqueRockasTopHalf Films: * 'OH BABYLON' directed by Costas Ferris roles of Nereida, and party reveller * 'The Witches' directed by Nic Roeg , role of Henrietta, * 'Outland' directed by Peter Hyams, role of Maintenance Woman. ==Prelude == As stated in the British Library archives Rockas first production was Ford`s `Tis Pity She`s a Whore ` under the name of New Theatre in 1980 and was a prelude to her creating Internationalist Theatre. Declan Donnellan was commissioned to direct the play. "it is something of a triumph. Naked passion is as raw under a three piece suit as draped in Renaissance brocades".https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=the%20stage%20tis%20pity%20she%60s%20a%20whore%201980%20ann%20morley%20priestman&retrievecountrycounts;=false She herself portrayed Annabella as a sinister teenager and not the compliant passive beauty. The Stage, Ann Morley Priestman Various accents from a Scottish, American and South African cast mixed seamlessly in this production as a start to the challenge of contemporary theatre mores Cast List ==Productions of Internationalist Theatre == The company was first named New Internationalist Theatre then changed to Internationalist Theatre Practitioner focus: Angelique Rockas | Drama And Theatre https://www.dramaandtheatre.co.uk/practical/article/practitioner-focus- angelique-rockas "This is a historic example of theatre work addressing representation in the most valuable manner". Editorial by Sarah Lambie https://www.dramaandtheatre.co.uk/opinion/article/editorial-autumn- term-2-2021-22... *In May 1982 at London`s Theatre Space Internationalist Theatre staged a multi-racial production Perfomers list at Bertolt-Brecht- Archiv ,Akademie der Künste, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder , Internationalist Theatre of `Mother Courage and Her Children` by Bertolt Brecht ", , whose attack on the practice of war could not— with South Atlantic news filling the front pages— have been more topical.." Drama:The Quarterly Theatre Review, Issues 139-154, pg 32 , 1982 "The cast ..is made of experienced actors from all over the world and perhaps their very cosmopolitanism helps to bring new textures to a familiar dish ." Richard Ingham, Where to go, May 13 , 1982 Breaking racial casting barriers: Why is a Pakistani actor playing the role of the Pastor ? was the question posed by Time Out Magazine critic Malcolm Hay Time Out, May 1982, Review of Mother Courage by Malcolm Hay *In October 1981 Internationalist Theatre mounted a multi-racial staging of the 'The Camp' by Griselda Gambaro Review by Spare Rib *In July 1982 in London`s Bloomsbury Theatre Fabio Perselli directed the first English language performance of 'Liola' by Luigi Pirandello. https://archive.org/details/daily-telegraph- deceit-in-a-sicilian-village-harold-atkins Press File Liola https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1950-01-01/1999-12-31?basicsearch=bloomsbury%20internationalist%20liola%20%20stage%20july%20%201982&exactsearch;=false&retrievecountrycounts;=false&newspapertitle;=the%2Bstagewith Internationalist Theatre`s multi-racial cast "It opened with a satiety of womens` gossip. some of it not very easy to follow with the various accents of the New Internationalist Theatre. But it picked up wonderfully. The pleasures of the performance with its occasional songs based on ballads and tarantellas , lay in the village vitality, the lusty folk element. .and the children romped about deliciously. A very good evening of an unusual kind." *In June 1981 Internationalist Theatre revived 'The Balcony' by Jean Genet in London`s Theatre Space with a multi-racial cast . The Stage Editorial Ellen Thomas played Irma and Angelique Rockas Carmen The Stage, Taylormade Theatre , Ann Morley-Priestman , pg 12 , 23 JUly 1981 * In January 1984 the Internationalist Theatre`s production of August Strindberg`s 'Miss Julie' was characterized by the disruption of ethnic preconceptions with a "small,dark" Angelique Rockas depicting the title part in a performance of great depth Press File: Miss Julie https://archive.org/details/profoundconflictreviewbyjostanleyinmorningstarofmissjulie2feb1984_202001 * In March 1983 Internationalist Theatre presented a multi-ethnic UK premiere of Tennessee Williams` 'In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel' at London`s New End Theatre .Press File: In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel https://archive.org/details/southafricangovdigestlindsayandersononrockasperformance_202001 * In March 1985 Ann Pennington directed a multi-national production of Maxim Gorky`s 'Enemies' in association with Internationalist Theatre , in London. One critic saw a parallel between the workers uprising in Enemies and the Miners Strike that had been running in the UK since 1984 " it is about the miners strike " UK miners' strike (1984–85). BBC Russian Service, review of 'Enemies' by Zinovi Zinik, March 1985 https://archive.org/details/bbcrussianservicereviewgorkyenemiespage1a_202002 Gorky`s "pseudo-populism" is done away with in this production by the actors speaking "without distinctive accents and consequently without populist sentiment" .Designed by Paul Brown , the cast included Madlena Nedeva, Nick Ellsworth, Angelique Rockas and Marilyn Flynn https://archive.org/details/PaulLewensteinEnemies ==Personal life== Rockas is a Greek Orthodox Christian.Hellenism.net Interview https://quotepark.com/authors/angelique-rockas/quotes-about-christ/ She continues her activism on several internet websites where she counteracts attacks on Christianity, offers free online education material , defends womens`, Palestinian https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140524-at-home-and- abroad-christian-palestinians-under-attack-by-israel-and-its-apologists/ and Greek rights see Wikidata and https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Angelique_Rockas