Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. First performed 16**. Perhaps the most popular Shakespeare play in South African theatre, certainly performed more than any other in the 19th century. [???***First recorded South African performance in the Military Barracks in Cape own in 179*?]

Performed professionally in English by NTO in 1953, directed by Leonard Schach, featuring Gerrit Wessels, Siegfried Mynhard, Frank Wise, Alan Chadwick, Edna Jacobson, Roma Reilly. Aedwyn Darroll, Vivienne Drummond]]

Other notable productions include **, **, **, **,. It has been performed a number of times at Maynardville, beginning with ***’s version in 195*, with ** and including Roy Sargeant's 1978 and Geoffrey Hyland’s 2006 versions, with **. An innovative production by The Company in the Blue Fox, Johannesburg in the 1970s used a set consisting only of two cushions, two deck chairs and a green carpet with a hole in it. Translated into Afrikaans as Twaalfde Nag by Uys Krige and first performed by PACT?* on 11 August 1964 (dir. ***). Often performed in that language too. A notable multiracial production of the Afrikaans text was done by Janice Honeyman at the Oude Libertas Theatre in Stellenbosch, KKNK and Baxter Theatre in 2005, featuring i.a. Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Marius Weyers, Peter Butler, Chris Van Niekerk, Jeroen Kranenberg, Quanita Adams, Royston Stoffels and Ivan Abrahams. *

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