With Friends Like These
With Friends Like These is a short one-person skit written and performed by Rowan Atkinson (1955-) [1].
Also known as The Wedding from Hell
Contents
The original text
This iconic skit offers a look at the narrator Gerald's catastrophic wedding through three outrageous speeches made at a wedding by the priest, the best man and the father-in-law.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Wie Het Vyande Nodig? by Mareli Steyn as a translation exercise for the playwriting course at the Stellenbosch Drama Department.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Atkinson
A copy of the Afrikaans text of Wie Het Vyande Nodig? submitted to the department, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.
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