The winning production at the annual Première Theatre Festival showcases the best young actors, writers, and directors in the SU Drama Department. Join us in celebrating young talent whilst being entertained by riveting storytelling and top-class acting. More than 80 students took part in 11 productions at this year’s festival.
It is the year of our Lord 1745. The trousseau is packed. The oranges are picked. The sheets have been washed. And all over the Cape of Good Hope there are celebrations, because farmer Willem Aarde and his shy bride Amélie Bruére are getting married! A marriage means the union of families. Of farms. Of wealth. A wedding means an heir! (Or heirs, if the bride is as young and pure and fertile as the one in this story.) And there is the clinking of glasses in anticipation of the wedding night. But when the bedroom door is locked and the linen on the four-poster bed is turned down, farmer Willem and bride Amélie come face to face with inevitable, binding and divine duty – a duty that goes beyond stripping off clothes. Because for this bridal couple on their wedding night, there is much more in store than ruined sheets.
