John Hunter (performer)

John Hunter was a New Zealand performer, best known as a star female impersonator with the Kiwis Revue which performed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1940s and 1950s.[1] In the Kiwis revues, he notably performed two-hander scenes from Noel Coward's Private Lives and Bitter Sweet playing both male and female roles.[2]

He travelled to London in 1950 to study ballet, although rejoined the Kiwis in Australia by 1951.[3] Hunter performed in the mid to late 1950s with the New Zealand Players including as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1954.[4] He also played The Jester in the 1959 Australian production of Once Upon a Mattress at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne.

References

1. "Entirely made up". Otago Daily Times. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
2. "A Man Who Knows Women". The Sunday Herald (Sydney). New South Wales, Australia. 4 May 1952. p. 12. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
3. "THIS WEEK with Lindsay Webb". The Mail (Adelaide). South Australia. 10 June 1950. p. 40. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
4. "SHOE BUSINESS". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 21 April 1956. p. 13. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.