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[[Janet Suzman]] wrote a radically adapted version of it, entitled [[A Free State]], setting the play in South Africa (London, 19**?). Published by ** in 200*. | [[Janet Suzman]] wrote a radically adapted version of it, entitled [[A Free State]], setting the play in South Africa (London, 19**?). Published by ** in 200*. | ||
| − | [[Reza de Wet]] also borrowed heavily from the play for her own [[Drie Susters Twee]] ''[[Three Sisters Two]]'' and ''[[Yelena]]''. | + | [[Reza de Wet]] also borrowed heavily from the play for her own ''[[Drie Susters Twee]]'' (''[[Three Sisters Two]]'') and ''[[Yelena]]''. |
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Revision as of 20:01, 15 August 2013
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. First performed in by the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Stanislavski in 1904.
Contents
Performance history in South Africa
First South African performance in 19** by **.
Other English productions
1963: one by John Fernald at the Alexander Theatre, starring his wife Jenny Laird, Siegfried Mynhardt, Patrick Mynhardt, Arthur Hall, Estelle Kohler and Fiona Fraser in 1963.
1978: Ken Leach directed a Baxter Company '78 production with Sandra Prinsloo, Merle Lifson, Michele Maxwell, Keith Grenville, Henry Goodman, Wilson Dunster, Simon Swindell, Marga van Rooy, Frantz Dobrowsky, Melanie-Ann Sher, Don Maguire, Pieter Geldenhuys, Roland Stafford. **
In translation
Translated into Afrikaans as Kersieboord by ** and first produced by ** in 19*.
In 1979 an Afrikaans translation by **, entitled Die Kersietuinwas directed for PACT by Robert Mohr, with Rika Sennett, David van der Merwe, Wilna Snyman and Carel Trichardt
2013: Afrikaans version, Die Kersieboord, performed from 6 to 17 August and 27 to 31 August at the Intimate Theatre, Cape Town, directed Sandra Temmingh for The Mechanicals, with Tinarie van Wyk Loots, Wilhelm van der Walt and Oscar Peterson. It was part of The Mechanicals’ Chekhov Season, which also included The Proposal (20:00) and The Bear (22 to 26 August, 1 to 12 September).
Adaptations
Janet Suzman wrote a radically adapted version of it, entitled A Free State, setting the play in South Africa (London, 19**?). Published by ** in 200*.
Reza de Wet also borrowed heavily from the play for her own Drie Susters Twee (Three Sisters Two) and Yelena.
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp
http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=33557
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