|
|
JANET SUZMAN (1939 - ) |
|
Nationality: South African Email: n/a Website: n/a |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Born in Johannesburg to a Jewish family, the niece of civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, she was educated at Kingsmead College, Johannesburg, and at the University of the Witwatersrand where she studied English and French. She moved to London in 1959
Plays by Janet Suzman
Free State, The: A South African Response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal Bath/ tour | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431330 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33741 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| This powerful version of Chekhovs famous drama reflects the South African phenomenon of the 1990s. With the hindsight of the new millennium we can look back and see that the miracle did happen. The new order did take over from the old. The fruitless cherry orchard was chopped down. The old men who couldn't move with the times have been left behind and forgotten. Chekhov's great pre-revolutionary drama, dreaming of youthful energy replacing the worn-out inertia of a dying world, lends itself vividly to this new setting in post-revolutionary South Africa. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
