Fortress - Revision history

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Satj: /* The original text */

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The original text

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Sources

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Satj: Created page with "''Fortress'' is a one act play by Michael Scanlan ()[] Billy is nine when he finds out, accidentally, that he's adopted. Feeling betrayed, he retreats into a world of his..."

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Created page with "''Fortress'' is a one act play by Michael Scanlan ()[] Billy is nine when he finds out, accidentally, that he's adopted. Feeling betrayed, he retreats into a world of his..."

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''[[Fortress]]'' is a one act play by Michael Scanlan ()[]

Billy is nine when he finds out, accidentally, that he's adopted. Feeling betrayed, he retreats into a world of his own, cuts his mother and father off completely and builds up his own Fortress of Solitude, modeling his life after that of the most famous orphan ever, Superman.

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-''[[Fortress]]'' is a one-act play by [[Michael Scanlan]] ()[]
+''[[Fortress]]'' is a one-act play by Michael Scanlan.
 ''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by Allan Mackay''
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 https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/8524/fortress-full-length
-Copy of the typed text of ''[[Veilige Vesting]]'', found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.
+Copy of the typed text of ''[[Veilige Vesting]]'', found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022. Now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]]  ([[PARC]])  at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by Allan Mackay''		''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by Allan Mackay''

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	''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by Allan Mackay''		''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by Allan Mackay''

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 ''[[Fortress]]'' is a one act play by Michael Scanlan ()[]
-''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by [[Allan Mackay]]''
+''Not to be confused with '''[[The Fortress]]''' by Allan Mackay''
 ==The original text==
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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Veilige Vesting]]'' by [[Bernie Visser]]
+Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Veilige Vesting]]'' by [[Bernie Visser]].
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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 First performed in its one-act form at LaSalle Academy in Rhode Island. Later reworked as a full-length play.
-Published by [[Samuel French]]
+Published by Bakers Plays in 1988 and by [[Samuel French]]
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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

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		+	Copy of the typed text of ''[[Veilige Vesting]]'', found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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−	Billy is nine when he finds out~~, accidentally,~~ that he's adopted. ~~Feeling~~ betrayed, he retreats into a world of his own, ~~cuts~~ his ~~mother and father off completely and builds up his own~~ Fortress of Solitude, ~~modeling his life after that of the most famous~~ orphan ~~ever, Superman~~.	+	==The original text==
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		+	A play for teenage performers about Billy, who is nine when he accidentally finds out that he's adopted. He feels betrayed, so he retreats into a world of his own, excluding his parents, in order to devise a Fortress of Solitude, in which he models himself on Superman, another orphan.
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		+	First performed in its one-act form at LaSalle Academy in Rhode Island. Later reworked as a full-length play.
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		+	Published by [[Samuel French]]
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		+	==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Veilige Vesting]]'' by [[Bernie Visser]]
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		+	== Performance history in South Africa ==
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		+	== Sources ==
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		+	https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/9503/fortress-one-act
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		+	https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/8524/fortress-full-length
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		+	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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