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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. | ||
| − | 1974: Performed by [[PACT]] in the [[Alexander Theatre]], Johannesburg, with a cast that included [[Errol Ross]], [[Michael Richard]], [[Lindsay Reardon]], and [[Reza de Wet]], | + | 1974: Performed by [[PACT]] in the [[Alexander Theatre]], Johannesburg, with a cast that included [[Errol Ross]], [[Michael Richard]], [[Robert Gordon]], [[Beverley Melnick]], [[Leonie Hofmeyr]], [[Lindsay Reardon]], and [[Reza de Wet]], |
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Revision as of 11:56, 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".
Contents
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 Errol Ross, Michael Richard, Robert Gordon, Beverley Melnick, Leonie Hofmeyr, Lindsay Reardon, and Reza de Wet,
Sources
Samuel French [2].
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