With Friends Like These
With Friends Like These is a short one-person skit written and performed by Rowan Atkinson[].
Also known as The Wedding from Hell
Contents
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.
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