Janet Suzman: 2 books
Not Hamlet
Meditations on the Frail Position of Women in Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, La Pucelle, Ophelia, Shaw’s St Joan and Ibsen’s Hedda – a handful of ‘seminal’ roles for women in the classical canon. Janet Suzman has played them all and directed some. Here she examines their complexity and explores why only Cleopatra has an independence that...
The Free State: A South African Response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
A South African Response to Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This powerful version of Chekhov’s 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...