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''The Free State'', a 'reworking' of Chekov's ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'', by [[Janet Suzman]]. The play is set on an estate in the Eastern Free State, in the Clocolan cherry-growing region.
 
''The Free State'', a 'reworking' of Chekov's ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'', by [[Janet Suzman]]. The play is set on an estate in the Eastern Free State, in the Clocolan cherry-growing region.
  
Produced by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre starring Janet Suzman as Lucy Rademeyer, Patricia Boyer as Anna, Jeffrey Kissoon as Alexander, Esmeralda Bihl as Maria, and Jack Klaff as Leo Guyver.
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Produced by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre starring Janet Suzman as Lucy Rademeyer, Patricia Boyer as Anna, Jeffrey Kissoon as Alexander, [[Esmeralda Biehl]] as Maria, and Jack Klaff as Leo Guyver.
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==

Revision as of 10:37, 18 May 2017

The Free State, a 'reworking' of Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, by Janet Suzman. The play is set on an estate in the Eastern Free State, in the Clocolan cherry-growing region.

Produced by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre starring Janet Suzman as Lucy Rademeyer, Patricia Boyer as Anna, Jeffrey Kissoon as Alexander, Esmeralda Biehl as Maria, and Jack Klaff as Leo Guyver.

The original text

First published in London by Methuen, 2000 (ISBN 0-413-74330-6). Published in 2011 as The free state : a South African response to Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard by Oberon Books (ISBN 9781849431330).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Directed by Yvette Hardie for the National School of Arts (Johannesburg) main drama production for 2002.

Sources

The Free State theatre programme, 2002.

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

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