The Bear

The Bear by Anton Chekhov.

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 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

Bosman, 1928: pp

Trek, 10(8):23, 1945.

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