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''The Bear'' by Anton Chekhov.
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1945: 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]], also produced the play at this festival.
 
 
 
1970: 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]].
 
 
 
1975 Performed in [[Afrikaans]] in 1970 directed by [[Ria Olivier]], starring [[Johan Fourie]], [[Anna-Marie Engelbrecht]], [[Carina Steyn]], [[Herman Pretorius]], and [[Christine Monaco]] in October.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1974: Performed in English 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]].
 
 
198*: Staged in [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Beer]]'' by [[Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]], directed by ***, with (actress?***), [[Anton Smith]] and [[Neels Engelbrecht]].
 
 
 
2013: Performed in English, 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).
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
There appears to have been an [[Afrikaans]] translation by an unnamed translator entitled ''[[Die Beer]]'' ("The bear"),  used by the students and staff of the [[University of Stellenbosch]] Drama Department , , used by the  [[Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] for performances in October 1975, and later again in 198*.
 
 
 
Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Buffel]]'' (literally "The buffalo", but metaphorically "the boor") by [[Alewyn Lee]], published by Tafelberg, 1980, in the collection ''Die Buffel en ander eenakters''.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp
 
 
 
''Trek'', 10(8):23, 1945.
 
 
 
[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az|Astbury]], 1979.
 
 
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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