The Great Outdoors - Revision history

Miriamt at 15:40, 15 October 2019

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Miriamt at 15:20, 5 March 2015

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Johann van Heerden: /* Performance history in South Africa */

2014-03-18T09:44:58Z

Performance history in South Africa

Johann van Heerden: /* Performance history in South Africa */

2014-03-18T09:41:05Z

Performance history in South Africa

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2014-03-18T09:34:10Z

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-by '''[[Neil McCarthy]]''' (2000). Best New Play, Vita Awards 2001.
+''[[The Great Outdoors]]'' is a play by '''[[Neil McCarthy]]''' (2000). Best New Play, [[Vita Awards]] 2001.
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 Prominent theatre critic [[Robert Greig]] described this play as “A mountain of South African theatre - one of the most complex and mature plays written in this country in the past two decades, it makes others look infantile” (2001).
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2000, directed by [[Barbara Rubin]], with [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jamie Bartlett]], [[Leila Henriques]] and [[Debbie Brown]]. The same production was staged at the Agfa [[Theatre on the Square]] in Sandton in April 2001. Produced in the [[Square Space Theatre]] on the University of Natal campus, directed by [[Maurice Podbrey]], with [[Ben Voss]], [[Tamar Meskin]], [[Esmael Teixeira]] and [[Belinda Henwood]] in April 2002. Staged at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in August 2002, directed by [[Maurice Podbrey]], with [[Jamie Bartlett]], [[Terry Norton]], [[Adrian Galley]] and [[Victoria Bartlett]].
+-2001: Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Barbara Rubin]], with [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jamie Bartlett]], [[Leila Henriques]] and [[Debbie Brown]]. The same production was staged at the Agfa [[Theatre on the Square]] in Sandton in April 2001.
-==Translations and adaptations==
+: Staged at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in August 2002, directed by [[Maurice Podbrey]], with [[Jamie Bartlett]], [[Terry Norton]], [[Adrian Galley]] and [[Victoria Bartlett]].
 == Sources ==
-''Business Day'', 3 May 2001.
+''[[Business Day]]'', 3 May 2001.
 Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]

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 == Sources ==
+''Business Day'', 3 May 2001.
 Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]

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−	by '''[[Neil McCarthy]]''' (2000).	+	by '''[[Neil McCarthy]]''' (2000). Best New Play, Vita Awards 2001.

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+The primary focus is on ordinary South Africans facing their own fallibility and living with guilt and fear in the new South Africa. The central character is a car salesman who, driving home, runs over and kills a drunk man from a squatter camp. With the help of a former army colleague, now an officer in the police force, they cover it up. But the price is a Faustian arrangement requiring the salesman to allow the police major to sleep with his wife.
 Prominent theatre critic [[Robert Greig]] described this play as “A mountain of South African theatre - one of the most complex and mature plays written in this country in the past two decades, it makes others look infantile” (2001).

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	EDIT>>> Natal 2002 >> Raymond and Paula is an easily recognisable suburban South African couple. Raymond (Ben Voss) is a car salesman with an elegant marketing executive wife (Tamar Meskin). They meet up with the dark and brooding Neville (Esmael Teixeira) one of Raymond's buddies from the army who is now a police major, and Cassie (Belinda Henwood), a spirited dancer off to Miami. Raymond kills a black man near a squatter camp, fails to stop and looks to the major to help him cover it up. The major will help him - at a price. The repercussions reverberate through the lives of all four characters.		EDIT>>> Natal 2002 >> Raymond and Paula is an easily recognisable suburban South African couple. Raymond (Ben Voss) is a car salesman with an elegant marketing executive wife (Tamar Meskin). They meet up with the dark and brooding Neville (Esmael Teixeira) one of Raymond's buddies from the army who is now a police major, and Cassie (Belinda Henwood), a spirited dancer off to Miami. Raymond kills a black man near a squatter camp, fails to stop and looks to the major to help him cover it up. The major will help him - at a price. The repercussions reverberate through the lives of all four characters.
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		+	Prominent theatre critic [[Robert Greig]] described this play as “A mountain of South African theatre - one of the most complex and mature plays written in this country in the past two decades, it makes others look infantile” (2001).

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==

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		+	One Liner: A darkly humorous contemporary drama, The Great Outdoors follows four Johannesburg suburbanites on a journey of love, loss and emotional risk.
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2000, directed by [[Barbara Rubin]], with [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jamie Bartlett]], *** and ***.
+Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2000, directed by [[Barbara Rubin]], with [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jamie Bartlett]], [[Leila Henriques]] and [[Debbie Brown]]. The same production was staged at the Agfa [[Theatre on the Square]] in Sandton in April 2001.
 the Square Space Theatre on the University of Natal campus from 10 April until 11 May 2002, directed by [[Maurice Podbrey]], with [[Ben Voss]], [[Tamar Meskin]], [[Esmael Teixeira]] and [[Belinda Henwood]].

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	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==
−	Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2000, directed by [[Barbara Rubin]].	+	Premièred at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] 2000, directed by [[Barbara Rubin]], with [[Neil McCarthy]], [[Jamie Bartlett]], * and *.