The Way of the World
The Way of the World a comedy in two acts by William Congreve (1670-1729)[1]
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The original text
Considered one of the best Restoration comedies, the play revolves around the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant and the latter's dowry.
The play had its premiere in March 1700 in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
Translations and adaptations
Performance History in South Africa
1970: Presented by CAPAB on May 26-30, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the 1820 Settlers, directed by Leslie French, with Arthur Hall as Fainall, Bernard Brown as Mirabell, Joyce Bradley, Leslie French as Witwoud, Pietro Nolte as Petulant, Elliott Playfair as Sir Wilfull Witwout, John Mitchell as Waitwell, Jeanne Wennberg as Mrs Marwood, Val Fletcher as Mrs Fainall, Cathy Hanson as Foible, Brigid Reynolds as Mincing, Cathy Wolhurter as Betty, Maryke Herman as Peg, Jimmy Kennedy, Alan Hope, and Brian KennedY as coachmen and footmen, Jennifer Craig and Lyn Hooker as Mrs Millamant in the cast, 1970.
1978: Presented by University Theatre Stellenbosch, produced by Pat Harvey in the H.B. Thom Theatre, September 1978. Nicholas Fine, Conrad Heyns, David Muller, Cathy Beard, Rachelle Greeff and others
Sources
Souvenir Brochure for the 1820 Settlers Celebration Committee by Alfred Porter and Bruce D Mann.
Photograph by Brian Astbury for CAPAB.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve
UTS theatre pamphlet
CAPAB List of Plays Presented, 1971.
Copy of a typed text of the play, held in the former Drama Texts Library of the Stellenbosch Drama Department, found in the archive in 2022.
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