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''[[With Friends Like These]]'' is a short one-person skit written and performed by Rowan Atkinson[].

Also known as ''[[The Wedding from Hell]]''

==The original text==

offers a look at Gerald's catastrophic wedding through three outragious 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 an exercise for the playwriting course at the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]].

== Performance history in South Africa ==

== Sources ==

A copy of the text of as submitted, found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.

Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 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.
+A copy of the [[Afrikaans]] text of ''[[Wie Het Vyande Nodig?]]'' submitted to the department, 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]]''', Stellenbosch.)
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 ==The original text==
-The 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.
+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==

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	A copy of the [[Afrikaans]] text of ''[[Wie Het Vyande Nodig?]]'' submitted to the department, found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.		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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	Also known as ''[[The Wedding from Hell]]''		Also known as ''[[The Wedding from Hell]]''

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Wie Het Vyande Nodig?]]'' by [[Mareli Steyn]] as an exercise for the playwriting course at the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]].
+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 ==

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 == Sources ==
-A copy of the text of as submitted, found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.
+A copy of the [[Afrikaans]] text of ''[[Wie Het Vyande Nodig?]]'' submitted to the department, found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]