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. 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.He travelled to London
in 1950 to study ballet, although rejoined the Kiwis in Australia by
1951. Hunter performed in the mid to late 1950s with the New Zealand
Players including as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1954. He
also played The Jester in the 1959 Australian production of Once Upon
a Mattress at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne.
impersonator with the Kiwis Revue which performed in New Zealand and
Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. 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.He travelled to London
in 1950 to study ballet, although rejoined the Kiwis in Australia by
1951. Hunter performed in the mid to late 1950s with the New Zealand
Players including as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1954. He
also played The Jester in the 1959 Australian production of Once Upon
a Mattress at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne.
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