The Proposal

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The Proposal by Anton Chekov. Also known in English as A Marriage Proposal. (Russian title: Предложение). It is a one-act farce written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. Performed widely and often internationally.

Performance history in South Africa

In 197* The Space (Cape Town) staged it as a lunch hour presentation, directed by Brian Astbury with Charles Comyn, Andrea Fine and Len Sparrow-Hawk. *

Translated into Afrikaans as Die huweliksaansoek by C. Benade, Nerina Ferreira and Alewyn Lee. First performed


2013: Performed from 22 to 26 August, 1 to 12 September at the Intimate Theatre, Cape Town, by The Mechanicals, as part of their Chekhov Season, in tandem with The Bear.

Sources

Bosman, 1928: pp


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