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''The Bear'' by Anton Chekhov.
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
Produced for the [[Krugersdorp Municipal Dramatic and Operatic Society]] by [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]] as their entry in the 1945 [[FATSSA]] Play Festival, featuring [[Frieda Mardegant]]. A second society, the [[Natal Society Play Reading Group]], produced the play at this festival.
 
 
 
Performed by students of the [[Stellenbosch University Drama Department]] in 1970 under direction of [[Jan Engelen]] starring [[Johann van Heerden]], [[Sharon Montgomery]] and [[Theuns Meyer]].
 
 
 
This was the most successful production which ran in the lunch-hour slot at [[Space Theatre|The Space]]  (Cape Town). [[Bill Tanner]] was the director and the stage manager was [[Andrea Fine]]. The cast consisted of [[Limpie Basson]], [[Yvonne Bryceland]] and [[Keith Grenville]]. ****date? Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Die Buffel]]'' (The buffalo)?* by [[Alewyn Lee]], published by Tafelberg, 1980, in ''Die Buffel en ander eenakters''.
 
 
 
Later done as ''[[Die Beer]]'' (=The bear) by ** and first produced **. Presented by [[Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in October 1975, directed by [[Ria Olivier]], starring [[Johan Fourie]], [[Anna-Marie Engelbrecht]], [[Carina Steyn]], [[Herman Pretorius]], and [[Christine Monaco]].
 
 
 
2013: Performed in tandem with ''[[The Proposal]]'' from 22 to 26 August, 1 to 12 September at the [[Intimate Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[The Mechanicals]], as part of their Chekhov Season, which also included ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' (6 to 17 August and 27 to 31 August).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp
 
 
 
''Trek'', 10(8):23, 1945.
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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