Venue: Twelfth Night Theatre
Town: Queensland, AU

The Twelfth Night Theatre is an established Australian entertainment venue located in Bowen Hills, in Brisbane, Queensland. Many notable actors, both international and Australian, have performed there. The Twelfth Night Complex includes the main theatre and a smaller basement area which used to home dinner theatre as of 2022 due to managerial differences. The Twelfth Night Players was an amateur group founded by Rhoda Mary Felgate who had directed many plays for the Brisbane Repertory Theatre Society. That society was for advanced performers and she believed that with her teaching skills she could found a new company for a company of improving amateurs who could perform important plays. When it started performing the company consisted of only a dozen or more actors. In the first three years of Twelfth Night Theatre the company staged 21 different plays. In 1937 Stanley Hildebrandt and Lorna Forbes were in the cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. In the 1940s the company performed many new plays which Felgate was able to source including John Van Druten's I Remember Mama, Shaw's 1939 play In Good King Charles's Golden Days and the eponymous Gas Light. In 1948 the company found its first location on Wickham Terrace where it occupied two floors; the upper for play rehearsal and the lower for teachers. In 1955 Rhoda Felgate became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In the following year the company obtained a church hall on Wickham Terrace named Gowrie Hall which became their small theatre. Felgate appeared in I Remember Mama before retiring from the company in 1962, but continued her association as its Patron. Joan Whalley was the artistic director of Twelfth Night Theatre from 1962 to 1976. Twelfth Night Theatre was relocated to its present location following the demolition of its former building due to the construction of the Turbot Street Bypass in 1971. The land was sold in 1966 by Brian Johnstone and Marjorie Johnstone, who also owned the