Edmund Kean
Edmund Kean is a play by Raymund Fitzsimons ()[1].
The play is simply billed as Kean in some cases.
Contents
The original text
The play is based on Fitzsimon's own book Edmund Kean: Fire From Heaven (published by Dial Press in January 1, 1976), the play offers a look at the life of the early 19th century actor Edmund Kean (1787-1833)[2], and explores First performed in London in 1983, with Ben Kingsley in the role of Kean. The text published by Hamilton, 1976.
Translations and adaptations
The play was adapted for television entitled Kean in 1983.
Performance history in South Africa
1985: Performed as Kean, produced by Pieter Toerien (by arrangement with Duncan C. Weldon) and directed by Rex Garner, with Michael Richard as "Kean". Designs by Jannie Swanepoel, costumes by Noreen Sterling, choreography by Jimmy Bell. It opened in the Leonard Rayne Theatre on 12 June for a run in Johannesburg, then moved to the Baxter Studio for a Cape Town run.
Sources
Brian Barrow and Yvonne Williams-Short (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987. Cape Town: The Baxter Theatre.
Edmund Kean theatre programme, Pieter Toerien 1985.
Kerneels Breytenbach. 1985. Richard verstom as "tragediant", Die Burger, 10 Augustus, 1985.
Fiona Chisholm. 1985. Richard has an oral Rolls-Royce, Cape Times (an undated press cutting, ESAT archive).
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