Difference between revisions of "Subject to Fits"

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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
There is evidence of a pre-1974 production starring [[Robert Gordon]], [[Beverley Melnick]], [[Michael Richard]] and [[Leonie Hofmeyr]] staged at the [[Arena Theatre]], Rosebank.
 
There is evidence of a pre-1974 production starring [[Robert Gordon]], [[Beverley Melnick]], [[Michael Richard]] and [[Leonie Hofmeyr]] staged at the [[Arena Theatre]], Rosebank.
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1974: Performed by [[PACT]] in the [[Alexander Theatre]], Johannesburg, with a cast that included [[**  Ross]], [[Michael Richard]], Lyndsay **, and [[Reza de Wet]],
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 08:54, 27 November 2019

Subject to Fits is a play by American actor, producer, director Robert Montgomery (1904-1981) [1]. The author calls his play not an adaptation but "a response to Dostoyevsky's The Idiot".

The original text

Published by Samuel French, ISBN: 9780573700354.

Premiered at the Pubic Theater (New York Shakespeare Festival) 1971.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

There is evidence of a pre-1974 production starring Robert Gordon, Beverley Melnick, Michael Richard and Leonie Hofmeyr staged at the Arena Theatre, Rosebank.

1974: Performed by PACT in the Alexander Theatre, Johannesburg, with a cast that included ** Ross, Michael Richard, Lyndsay **, and Reza de Wet,

Sources

Samuel French [2].

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