Swan Song
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Anton Chekhov's Swan Song [1887] (original title in Russian Lebedinaia pesnia) was one of his early plays. An aging comic actor, left alone on the stage of a small theatre, dreams of his past life, of the visions that once were his, and of the reality before him.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
English translation, by Marian Fell, was published in 1912 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Translated into Afrikaans by Pietro Nolte as Swanesang.
Performance history in South Africa
Swanesang presented by the Kaapse Teatergroep, 1972 or 1973. Mavis Lilenstein was the stage manager.
Sources
World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll, 1947. 683.
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