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'''Kester Berwick''' (3 October 1903 – 29 June 1992)<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/198290320?keyword=Personal%20name%3A%20Dessaix,%20Robert,%201944- Trove]</ref> was an Australian actor and writer who spent the latter part of his life in [[Greece]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born Frank Perkins in [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]], he changed his name to Kester Baruch after a friend told him that would sound "less plebeian", than changed it again to Kester Berwick at the beginning of [[World War II]], when he was living in [[Switzerland]]. He founded the experimental Ab-Intra Studio Theatre in [[Adelaide]] with Alan Harkness in 1931. In 1935, the two men closed Ab-Intra and went to Europe. <br />
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Berwick studied at Dartington Hall, [[Devon]], [[England]], with [[Michael Chekhov]] a former student of [[Konstantin Stanislavski|Stanislavski]], for four years from 1936 to 1937. After [[World War II]] broke out he returned to [[Australia]] to spend this time teaching. In the 1940s he was involved in directing plays at The Hut, now part of the [[University of Adelaide]] Theatre Guild. He then taught for five years in [[London]] from 1955.<br />
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Berwick settled in [[Mithymna]] (Molyvos), on the island of [[Lesbos]] in 1960, later moving to Gastouri, [[Corfu]] in 1969 where he lived until his death at the age of 89 in 1992.<br />
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==Personal life and legacy==<br />
Berwick was gay. His life is the subject of one of the storylines in [[Robert Dessaix]]'s novel ''Corfu''.<br />
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==Plays and publications==<br />
* 1932: directed with Alan Harkness, ''The Demon's Mask'', at Ab-Intra<br />
* 1932: directed with Alan Harkness, ''The Robe of Yama'' with [[Thelma Afford|Thelma Thomas]], at Ab-Intra<br />
* 1934: produced with Alan Harkness, [[Jacques Copeau]]'s ''The House Into Which We Are Born'' and [[Jean-Jacques Bernard]]'s ''Martine'', at Ab-Intra<br />
* 1944: directed with [[Brian Elliott (writer)|Brian Elliott]], ''Evening for Young Folk'', a play at The Hut, Adelaide.<br />
* 1945: director, ''The Stronger'', by [[August Strindberg]].<br />
* 1946: director, ''Swirling'', by Denys Amiel and [[André Obey]].<br />
* 1948: director, ''The Rape of Lucrece'', by André Obey.<br />
His novel, ''Head of Orpheus Singing'', was published in 1973.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Kester Berwick, ''Head of Orpheus Singing,'' Angus & Robertson, London, 1973.<br />
* [[Robert Dessaix]], ''Corfu,'' Picador (Pan MacMillan), Australia, 2001.<br />
* [[Thelma Afford]], "Ab-Intra Studio Theatre in Adelaide 1931-35", ''Australasian Drama Studies'' n. 12-13, pp.&nbsp;167–180. Bundoora, Vic. : Theatre and Drama Program, [[La Trobe University]].<br />
* [[Thelma Afford]], "The Most Experimental Little Theatre", ''Dreamers and Visionaries: Adelaide's Little Theatres from the 1920s to the early 1940s'' pp.&nbsp;45–72. [[Sydney]]: Currency Press.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* http://www.adelaide.edu.au/theatreguild/past/<br />
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