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Twelfth N Ight At Sawani
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lEN the lights dimmed in the large Fijian bure which had been decorated with ferns and r lilies, the people who had invited from Suva were not sure what to expect. We knew
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some S of us had doubts ll about Shake Leare h would bt fare b Tn lands of P Fiiian school-Srls need not have wor?ied For
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: these girls from various parts iji acted the Tale of Twelfth t, delivering the words with [•standing and a pleasure in the in lines, and wringing from the dy all the fun that Fijians can Tom almost any situation. e small stage was well used,
scene changes were accomplished speedily with the aid of two dif ferent transverse curtains, and the colourful costumes helped the girls to imagine themselves back in Shakespeare’s day.
The amazing thing about this P roduction was the obvious under standing all the girls showed for the full meanin S of Shakespeare’s lines and credit for this must to Miss Mann, who presented such an |“eks f °rehea?saT tlon aft6r ° n ' y rehearsal Ratu Mara P ut mto words what m any of us felt—“ What a pity P e °P le overseas won’t have a chance to see what these young Fijian girls can really do.”