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''[[Fortress]]'' is a one act play by Michael Scanlan ()[]
 
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==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 16:39, 14 March 2023

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

Not to be confused with The Fortress by

The original text

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.

First performed in its one-act form at LaSalle Academy in Rhode Island. Later reworked as a full-length play.

Published by Samuel French

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Veilige Vesting by Bernie Visser

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/9503/fortress-one-act

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.

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