Audrey Cruddas

Audrey Cruddas (1912–1979) ƙwararriyar mai zane ce a fannin kayan ado da kuma tukwane, mai zane da kuma tukwane.  

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An haife ta a Johannesburg, Afirka ta Kudu, Cruddas ta koma Ingila tare da iyayenta tun tana jaririya. Bayan ta bar makaranta ta karanci zane-zane a Makarantar Fasaha ta St John's Wood, Makarantar Royal Academy, da Makarantar Zane da Zane ta Bram Shaw . A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ta yi aiki a matsayin 'Yar Ƙasa' a Rundunar Sojojin Ƙasa ta Mata . A ƙarshen rikicin, ta fara tsara kayan ado na gidan wasan kwaikwayo kuma nan da nan ta sami hazaka daga mai rawa kuma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo Sir Robert Helpmann . Ba da daɗewa ba Cruddas ta zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu tsara wasan kwaikwayo na zamani na lokacin bayan yaƙi.

Kwamitin farko na Cruddas shine tsara kayan kwalliya ga The White Devil a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Duchess, London (1947). Wannan shirin ya nuna fitaccen abokinta kuma mai ba ta shawara Robert Helpmann. Sauran abubuwan da suka fi daukar hankali a farkon aikinsa sun hada da shirin John Burrell na Old Vic na 1947 na Taming of the Shrew da Verdi's, Aida at Convent Garden (1948). Fina-finan da suka shahara daga baya sun hada da shirin Michael Benthall na Old Vic na Julius Caesar (1955), Cymbeline (1957), da Hamlet (1958), da kuma shirin Peter Potter na Edinburgh Festival na ' The Wallace ' (1960).

A shekarar 1952, Cruddas ta zana wani littafin William Shakespeare mai suna The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra (wanda abokinta Laurence Olivier ne ya rubuta wannan bugu) na Folio Society kuma an sake buga littafin a shekarar 1963. Duk da cewa an fi saninta da aikin gidan wasan kwaikwayo, ta kasance ƙwararriyar mai fasaha a fannoni daban-daban - zane, zane da kuma tukwane. A wannan shekarar, ta kuma lashe kyautar Donaldson saboda gagarumin nasarar da ta samu a zane-zanen Caesar da Cleopatra.  

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1979
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1912