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==The original text==
 
==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.
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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==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Latest revision as of 09:56, 21 April 2023

With Friends Like These is a short one-person skit written and performed by Rowan Atkinson (1955-) [1].

Also known as The Wedding from Hell

The original text

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

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

Sources

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.

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