Gladys Vanderzee
Gladys Vanderzee (1883-)[1] was a British actress.
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Biography
Born Gladys Rosalie Vanderzee in Marylebone.
She became an actress, working for Frank Nenson's company and specialising on Shakespearean roles. Among the productions were Everyman (1906) As You Like It (1907), Hamlet (1912), Queen Tara (1913),
She married actor and director Henry Herbert, with whom she had worked for many years, on 29 June 1907 in St Stephens Paddington, London.
The couple eventually settled in New York, Henry making an impressive career for himself on the American stage. According to the Wikipedia entry on him, Herbert is likely to have also worked in film, credited as Henry Hebert.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She and her husband Henry Herbert arrived in the Cape in 1912 and gave a boost to classical theatre, playing in works such as She Stoops to Conquer, Macbeth, The Rivals, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In 1911, and again in 1913, Henry Herbert's Stratford-on-Avon Players presented many of Shakespeare's plays in the main South African towns.
Later, in 1921, they returned to Cape Town to do a full-length Hamlet, which started at 6 pm and finished at midnight. According to Stopforth, "those who saw it vowed that it did not drag for a minute" (215).
Sources
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN/2005-05/1116784236
http://www.thekingscandlesticks.com/webs/pedigrees/9081.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Herbert_(actor)
Rohan Quince, "Crinkles in the Carnival: Ideology in South African Productions of The Comedy of Errors to 1985", Shakespeare in South Africa, Vol.4, 1990/91, 73-81
Laurence Wright. "From Farce to Shakespeare": Shakespeare on the South African Stage
(Rhodes University)
Shakespeare in South Africa p.3 The earlier twentieth century The Leonard Rayne Era [2]
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