Drie Susters Twee - Revision history

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	''[[Citizen]]'', 5 September 1998.		''[[Citizen]]'', 5 September 1998.

−	Robert Greig. "Chekhov himself would have been proud", Review,	+	[[Robert Greig]]. "Chekhov himself would have been proud", Review.

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	''[[Citizen]]'', 5 September 1998.		''[[Citizen]]'', 5 September 1998.
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		+	Robert Greig. "Chekhov himself would have been proud", Review,

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 ''[[Drie Susters Twee]]'' ("''Three Sisters Two''") is an original full length [[Afrikaans]] play by [[Reza de Wet]] (1952–2012).
-Also found as '''''[[Drie Susters 2]]''...
+Also found as '''''[[Drie Susters 2]]''.
 == The original text ==

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	''[[Drie Susters Twee]]'' ("''Three Sisters Two''") is an original full length [[Afrikaans]] play by [[Reza de Wet]] (1952–2012).		''[[Drie Susters Twee]]'' ("''Three Sisters Two''") is an original full length [[Afrikaans]] play by [[Reza de Wet]] (1952–2012).
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		+	Also found as '''''[[Drie Susters 2]]''...

	== The original text ==		== The original text ==

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: First performed at the [[Nico Malan Theatre]] in Cape Town in April by [[CAPAB]], directed and designed by [[Marthinus Basson]] and featuring [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]], [[Grethe Fox]], [[Wilna Snyman]], [[Mary Dreyer]] , **, and [[Neels Coetzee]]. Winner of a number of awards, including [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Actress Award]] for Bezuidenhout, [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Director Award]] and [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script.
+: First performed at the [[Nico Malan Theatre]] in Cape Town in April by [[CAPAB]], directed and designed by [[Marthinus Basson]] and featuring among others [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]], [[Grethe Fox]], [[Wilna Snyman]], [[Mary Dreyer]] and [[Neels Coetzee]]. Winner of a number of awards, including [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Actress Award]] for Bezuidenhout, [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Director Award]] and [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script.
 : Staged in the [[Wynand Mouton Theatre]] in Bloemfontein in April 1997, directed by [[Nico Luwes]], with [[Stephanie Brink]], [[Karin van der Vyver]], [[Dorothy Dickens]], [[Anton Welman]], [[Welma de Beer]], [[Izanne Bezuidenhout]], [[Hercules Nel]], [[Pieter Swann]], [[Suzie Joubert]].

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 Translated by De Wet herself as  ''[[Three Sisters Two]]'' and published by Oberon Books in ''[[De Wet: A Russian Trilogy]]'' (2001), along with ''[[Yelena]]'' and ''[[On the Lake]]'', a volume that brings together three pieces which take as their inspiration the life and work of Anton Chekhov.
-According to Gordon Dickerson, De Wet's international agent, ''[[Three Sisters Two]]'' probably earned De Wet the most praise and money of all her plays outside of South Africa.  It opened in London in 2002 and other productions followed in Europe.
+According to Gordon Dickerson, De Wet's international agent, ''[[Three Sisters Two]]'' probably earned De Wet the most praise and money of all her plays outside of South Africa.
 A radio version of De Wet's translation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service in 2001.

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 == The original text ==
-Written as a sequel to Anton Chekhov's[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov] Russian play ''[[Three Sisters]]'', it is set nineteen years later, on the eve of the family's final, imminent removal to Moscow. The action occurs just after the end of the Russian Revolution, so the play offers a vision of the confusions and the collapse of value systems which occur at times of revolution.
+Written as a sequel to Anton Chekhov's[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov] Russian play ''[[Three Sisters]]'', it is set nineteen years later, on the eve of the family's final, imminent removal to Moscow. The action occurs just after the end of the Russian Revolution, so the play offers a vision of the confusions and the collapse of value systems which occur at times of revolution, and expands the themes of the original play to offer a poignant vision of dispossession at the heart of the human condition.
 In writing this work, De Wet also brings in elements from other Chekhov plays, e.g. ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' and ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]''.
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 According to Gordon Dickerson, De Wet's international agent, ''[[Three Sisters Two]]'' probably earned De Wet the most praise and money of all her plays outside of South Africa.  It opened in London in 2002 and other productions followed in Europe.
-A radio version was done on BBC Radio 4 and broadcast on the BBC World Service as well.
+A radio version of De Wet's translation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service in 2001.
 Dickerson mentions that it was rather surprising that, to the best of his knowledge, no one else had thought to update Chekhov’s story albeit it just to 1920. Interestingly, a few years after he had started circulating the English version of the play,  a Swedish adaptation of Chekhov’s play was written which was set during the Second World War, a similar period of uncertainty about what the future would be.
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: First performed by [[Artscape]], directed and designed by [[Marthinus Basson]] and featuring [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]], [[Grethe Fox]], [[Wilna Snyman]], [[Mary Dreyer]] , **, and [[Neels Coetzee]]. Winner of a number of awards, including [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Actress Award]] for Bezuidenhout, [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Director Award]] and [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script.
+: First performed at the [[Nico Malan Theatre]] in Cape Town in April by [[Artscape]], directed and designed by [[Marthinus Basson]] and featuring [[Aletta Bezuidenhout]], [[Grethe Fox]], [[Wilna Snyman]], [[Mary Dreyer]] , **, and [[Neels Coetzee]]. Winner of a number of awards, including [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Actress Award]] for Bezuidenhout, [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Best Director Award]] and [[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap Award]] for Best New Indigenous Script.
 : Staged in the [[Wynand Mouton Theatre]] in Bloemfontein in April 1997, directed by [[Nico Luwes]], with [[Stephanie Brink]], [[Karin van der Vyver]], [[Dorothy Dickens]], [[Anton Welman]], [[Welma de Beer]], [[Izanne Bezuidenhout]], [[Hercules Nel]], [[Pieter Swann]], [[Suzie Joubert]].
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 : Performed in the [[State Theatre]], opening on 15 August and directed by [[Marthinus Basson]], with [[Antoinette Kellermann]], [[Grethe Fox]], [[Johan Malherbe]], [[Siobhan Hodgson]], [[Karin van der Laag]], [[Neels Coetzee]], [[André Stoltz]], [[Alida Theron]], [[Rita Ehlers]].
 ==International productions==
-THREE SISTERS TWO places the characters from Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS in the Russia of 1920. It expands the themes of the original play to offer a poignant vision of dispossession at the heart of the human condition.
+: The Czech version had its premiere in May at Mestske Divadlo, Zlin.
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−	~~THREE SISTERS TWO~~

	THREE SISTERS TWO places the characters from Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS in the Russia of 1920. It expands the themes of the original play to offer a poignant vision of dispossession at the heart of the human condition.		THREE SISTERS TWO places the characters from Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS in the Russia of 1920. It expands the themes of the original play to offer a poignant vision of dispossession at the heart of the human condition.