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November 2012 -Campaign against the Greek Oligarchs
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June 2012 Angelique has created her own group on Linkedin.com -called GLOBAL GREEK WOMEN to campaign for Greece !
Celebration of Angelique Rockas 21 May 2012
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Angelique Rockas is the South African born Greek actress who singlehandedly founded Internationalist Theatre , the first seriously multi-racial and multi-national theatre company to perform classics like Brecht`s `Mother Courage and her Children`, Genet`s `The Balcony` , the premiere of the Argentinian` playwright Griselda Gambaro`s `The Camp` ,
November 2012 -Campaign against the Greek Oligarchs
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June 2012 Angelique has created her own group on Linkedin.com -called GLOBAL GREEK WOMEN to campaign for Greece !
Celebration of Angelique Rockas 21 May 2012
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Angelique Rockas is the South African born Greek actress who singlehandedly founded Internationalist Theatre , the first seriously multi-racial and multi-national theatre company to perform classics like Brecht`s `Mother Courage and her Children`, Genet`s `The Balcony` , the premiere of the Argentinian` playwright Griselda Gambaro`s `The Camp` , Pirandello`s `LIOLA `, the list goes on. She caused a revolution in the casting landscape of UK theatre.
Athol Fugard - a patron .
For a pictorial history of Internationalist Theatre:
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As a tribute to a Bold Theatre Pioneer, see the interview in The South African of Angelique Rockas -
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On stage Angelique Rockas has played Medea at London`s Theatro Technis. Her performance was described by The Sunday Telegraph critic , Rosemary Say as ` fiercely agile`and Ned Chaillot of The Times spoke of the ` dangerous passions of Angelique Rockas`
Angelique aas asked to repeat Medea in Greece by the great Greek director Minos Volanakis. Further great roles include Lady Macbeth,
Miss Julie in what RB Marriott of The Stage ` I have not seen a better production of Strindberg`s `Miss Julie` than that of the Internationalist Theatre` Angelique`s theatre company-
Carmen in Genet`s `The Balcony`
Tatiana in Maxim Gorky`s Enemies
Annabella in Ford`s `Tis Pity She`s a Whore the production which Angelique commissioned from Declan Donnellan under the banner of New Theatre, and which was to prove the launch pad for Cheek by Jowls illustrious career [Link removed - login to see]
Io in Aeschyllus` `Prometheus Bound`
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Angelique Rockas IMDB link-
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Angelique played the part of Nereida in Costas Ferris ` Oh Babylon `(IMDB accreditation
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see IMDB Angelique Rockas publicity listings: 11 interviews in Uk, Greek , USA, Swedish and Latin American press, and 42 media articles
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Angelique played the lead role of Miss Ortiki in the 12 part Greek TV series ` Emmones Idees ` (Also IMDB credited
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directed by the renowned Greek film director of `Mathe Pedi mou grammata` Thodoros Maragos. She is the only actress in the Uk of mainland Greek parentage who has gone to Greece to act in productionsd in the Greek language
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Angelique has had personal interviews with the great Italian directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rossi and the first woman film director to win an Oscar Lina Wertmuller in ROMa.
Derek Jarman the great British film artist had asked her to participate in two of his unrealised and unfinanced projects.
Lindsay Anderson had also offered her a film part, and attended at least 4 of her stage performances.
Angelique was instrumental in arranging the meeting between Elia Kazan and the Greek Uk film financier Frixos Constantini.
For a look at the astonishing collection of letters from `Luminaries` in the film and stage world;
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For an overview of the full depth of Angelique Rockas` as a Proud Greek and her contribution as a ground breaking actress and producer :
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Angelique Rockas has her own film company` Contemptus Mundi ` films.
She has written her first film script ` Ayoni and Ismeta`
Studied English literature , Politics and Philosophay at the University of the Witwatersrand , where she was an anti-apartheid activist.Graduated with an Englsih honours, continued with an unfinised MA on Restoration comedy with special reference to the Aside.
Is multi-lingual - see her Youtube composite.
Turns down work all the time -if its` of no existential import
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