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Rhoda Felgate

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in 1901. Her parents were Alice Maude (born Willson) and her husband Gordon Felgate and they emigrated to Australia while she was still a baby. Her father travelled as a company representative. They made their home in Brisbane in 1910 where she attended
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The Twelfth Night company first performed in March 1936 at the Empire Chambers. In the first three years of the company, it staged 21 different plays including works by the British playwrights
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was an amateur group founded by Felgate. It was named "Twelfth Night" because it intended to perform of the twelfth night of every month. Felgate had directed many plays for the
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Felgate travelled abroad in 1939 and in 1947. In the 1940s Twelfth Night Theatre performed many plays new to Australia which Felgate was able to source including
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where it occupied two floors; the upper for play rehearsal and the lower for teaching. In 1955, Felgate became a
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before retiring from the company in 1962. She continued her association as its Patron while
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which became their small theatre. Felgate appeared in another showing of
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In 1948 the company found its first location in a large building on
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took over as the artistic director of Twelfth Night Theatre.
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Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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Australian speech and drama teacher and theatre director
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Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire
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MBE

Stoke Newington
Auchenflower
Australia
Joan Whalley
MBE
Twelfth Night Theatre
Stoke Newington
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Twelfth Night Players
Brisbane Repertory Theatre Society
J. M. Barrie
A. A. Milne
J. B. Priestley
John Van Druten
I Remember Mama
In Good King Charles's Golden Days
Dear Ruth
Gas Light

Wickham Terrace
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Joan Whalley
Auchenflower




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