The Zoo Story - Revision history

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 ''[[Teaterforum]]'', 4(1), 1983, 113-114.
-Photocopy of the text from ''Two Plays by Edward Albee'' (), found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and 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.
+Photocopy of the text from ''Two Plays by Edward Albee'' (1961), found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and 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.
 Theatre pamphlet

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	''[[Teaterforum]]'', 4(1), 1983, 113-114.		''[[Teaterforum]]'', 4(1), 1983, 113-114.
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		+	Photocopy of the text from ''Two Plays by Edward Albee'' (), found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and 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.

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoo_Story
-Press clipping from ''Eastern Province Herald'', 16 May 1978, held by  [[NELM]]: [Collection: DICKERSON, Beth]: 2009. 61. 2. 40.
+Press clipping from ''[[Eastern Province Herald]]'', 16 May 1978, held by  [[NELM]]: [Collection: DICKERSON, Beth]: 2009. 61. 2. 40.
 ''[[Teaterforum]]'', 4(1), 1983, 113-114.

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 Albee's first play, it was written in 1958 in just three weeks, and was originally titled ''Peter and Jerry''. The play offers a brilliant duologue between Jerry, a neurotic outcast, and respectable, bourgeois Peter who meet in Central Park.
-Rejected by New York producers, the play premiered in West Berlin at the Schiller Theater Werkstatt on September 28, 1959, in a double bill with the German premiere of Samuel Beckett's ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]''. The play premiered in the United States Off-Broadway in a production by Theatre 1960 at the Provincetown Playhouse on January 14, 1960, and closed on May 21, 1961. The play was paired with ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]''.
+The play was initially rejected by New York producers, and thus premiered at the Schiller Theater Werkstatt in in Berlin on September 28, 1959, in a double bill with the German premiere of Samuel Beckett's ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]''. The play had its USA premiere Off-Broadway in a production by Theatre 1960 at the Provincetown Playhouse on January 14, 1960, again paired with ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]''.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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	Albee's first play, it was written in 1958 in just three weeks, and was originally titled ''Peter and Jerry''. The play offers a brilliant duologue between Jerry, a neurotic outcast, and respectable, bourgeois Peter who meet in Central Park.		Albee's first play, it was written in 1958 in just three weeks, and was originally titled ''Peter and Jerry''. The play offers a brilliant duologue between Jerry, a neurotic outcast, and respectable, bourgeois Peter who meet in Central Park.
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		+	Rejected by New York producers, the play premiered in West Berlin at the Schiller Theater Werkstatt on September 28, 1959, in a double bill with the German premiere of Samuel Beckett's ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]''. The play premiered in the United States Off-Broadway in a production by Theatre 1960 at the Provincetown Playhouse on January 14, 1960, and closed on May 21, 1961. The play was paired with ''[[Krapp's Last Tape]]''.

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

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 == Sources ==
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoo_Story
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 ''[[Teaterforum]]'', 4(1), 1983, 113-114.
 Theatre pamphlet
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 Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]
 == Return to ==
-Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 Z|Z]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
+Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
+Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
 Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]

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−	''[[The Zoo Story]]'' ~~(1958-2016)~~ is a one-act play by Edward Albee (1928-) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee].	+	''[[The Zoo Story]]'' is a one-act play by Edward Albee (1928-2016) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee].

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−	''[[The Zoo Story]]'' (1958) is a one-act play by Edward Albee (1928-) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee].	+	''[[The Zoo Story]]'' (1958-2016) is a one-act play by Edward Albee (1928-) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee].

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-''[[The Zoo Story]]'' (1958) is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee (born 1928) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee].
+''[[The Zoo Story]]'' (1958) is a one-act play by Edward Albee (1928-) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee].
-Albee's first play, it was written in 1958 and was originally titled ''Peter and Jerry'', completed in just three weeks. Offering a brilliant duologue between Jerry, a neurotic outcast, and respectable, bourgeois Peter who meet in Central Park.
+Albee's first play, it was written in 1958 in just three weeks, and was originally titled ''Peter and Jerry''. The play offers a brilliant duologue between Jerry, a neurotic outcast, and respectable, bourgeois Peter who meet in Central Park.
-'''''The Zoo Story''''' (1958) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoo_Story], originally titled ''Peter and Jerry'', is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee (born 1928) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee]. His first play, it was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. It is a brilliant duologue between Jerry, a neurotic outcast, and respectable, bourgeois Peter who meet in Central Park.
+== Performance history in South Africa ==
-== Performance history in South Africa ==
+**: Performed by students of the [[University of the Witwatersrand School of Dramatic Art]] in [[Nunnery|The Nunnery]], some time between 1975 and 1983.
 *: Produced for [[CAPAB]] by [[Kaben Kreu Productions]], directed by [[Mavis Taylor]], with [[Keith Grenville]] (Peter) and [[John Burch]] (Jerry).