Teddy Davies

Teddy Davies (19**-2024). Director.

Biography

His father was the late Berry Davies, whose radio show was highly popular during the 1940s in Cape Town. Teddy matriculated from Sea Point Boys' High, with other stage-struck pupils including Harold King and Antony Sher, who had produced their own shows at school.

Thereafter Davies joined the Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society, and though he leant towards the creative side of theatre such as set and costume design, he was nurtured in directing by Carla Kleinhans.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Over several decades, Teddy directed a large number of musicals and operettas for the amateur theatre communities in Cape Town. These include:

1981: A Song For You for Festival Players.

1982: Archy and Mehitabel for Festival Players.

1984: Grease for Camps Bay Operatic and Dramatic Society.

1984: H.M.S. Pinafore for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1985: Ruddigore for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1986: The Mikado for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1987: Iolanthe for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1989: The Gondoliers for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1991: The Pirates of Penzance

1993: Patience for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1995: West Side Story for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1997: The Yeomen of the Guard for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

1999: Chicago for Festival Players.

2000: Fiddler on the Roof for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2002: Carousel for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2003: The Boy Friend for Festival Players.

2004: Annie Get Your Gun for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2005: The Pirates of Penzance for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2006: Trial by Jury for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2007: The Gondoliers for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2009: H.M.S. Pinafore for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2011: Fiddler on the Roof for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2012: The Yeomen of the Guard for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

2014: Oklahoma! for Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

Other productions (dates unknown) include The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, Pippin, Baby and Drood.

Awards

He was made an honorary life member of the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

Sources

Cape Times, 24 August 2011.

Brian Barrow and Yvonne Williams-Short (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987. Cape Town: The Baxter Theatre.

'Davies bows out, for now'. IOL. 8 October 2003.

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