Kevin Hanssen

Acting credits include:
:: Professor John in David Mamet's riveting drama Oleanna at Reps Theatre Upstairs (September 2008).
:: Aslan, Professor and Father Christmas in the Theory X Production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe running until 15 December in Harare. See below.
:: Performer/Director of The Bridge, an original Zimbabwean play by Lucia Nhamo, Verity Norman and Kevin Hanssen. Performed in Harare, at the Grahamstown International Arts Festival (South Africa) and broadcast as a radio play on the Voice of America. Listen to it here.
:: Founding member of Over the Edge, Zimbabwe’s proudest theatrical export since it started in 1994.
:: Four seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival including ...
:: Nomination for acting excellence (The Stage - London) as part of a three actor company Over the Edge performing their self-penned play Born African at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2001).
:: The Rabbi from Tarsus. A one man play by Phillip Goble, directed by Danai Gurira. Performed at HIFA, in Norway and the UK (all 2006).
:: Part of the 3 man Zimbabwe team at the Impro World Championships (Germany - 2006)
:: Billy in Dulux South Africa’s Edutraining series (2007)
:: Sting in The Sting Show (Harare - 2007)
:: Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Harare - 2006)

David Mamet comes to Zimbabwe

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Kevin Hanssen and Renee Mostert starred in David Mamet's brilliant play exploring power and gender "Oleanna". The production was performed at the Reps Theatre Upstairs from the 11th to the 20th of September 2008. Previous performers of this play on the West End and Broadway include David Suchet (Poirot), Aaron Eckhart and Julia Stiles. The play was made into a film of the same name in 1994.

"In the no-man's land between misunderstanding and sexual harassment, we watch with impotent dread as the relationship between professor and student entirely breaks down, as their mutual respect evaporates and an unbridgeable divide opens which can only destroy one or both of them. This is the gender war, and more than that. It's the generation gap, and more than that. It's the class struggle, and more than that.
During it's New York run, audiences actually came to blows as they left the theatre, so powerful is David Mamet's writing. Time since has changed nothing."

See more about the show here.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

See photos of Aslan and others by clicking here
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Dec 2007)

directed by Zane E. Lucas
designed by Heather Cameron
music by Bernie Bismark
choreography by Mathias Julius