Awards for `The Island'
2005-08-18
ON Saturday night at the awards ceremony of the Klein Libertas Theatre Teenage Drama Festival, Bridge House’s production of The Island won the award for Best Play and Best Actor (shared by Claude van Wyk and Ephraim Gordon).
Eighteen performances from schools in the Northern suburbs, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch areas were entered in this competition which took place last week over the whole week.
The Island will be performed again at a gala performance in the Barnyard Theatre on Saturday.
Written in 1973, The Island explores the spirit of survival of those imprisoned by the Apartheid regime.
This modern classic is considered to be one of the most significant plays of the twentieth century and tells the story of two prisoners labouring in a quarry and rehearsing scenes from Sophocles’ Antigone for the prison concert, in their cell at night.
The performance in the Barnyard Theatre is in aid of the Bridge House Bursary Fund.
The school has benefited immensely and believes that the bursary students, in turn, have reaped the benefits of the education offered at Bridge House.
Tickets are R150 per person and can be booked by phoning Robyn Watkins on 874-8100 or 082-371-3267.
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