Üble Laune

Üble Laune ("The Bad Mood") is a play in four acts by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819).

The original text
Publisher:Leipzig : Kummer, 1799.

Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Kwade Luim ("The bad mood") by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop and published in 1814.

The Dutch title also appears as as De Kwade Luim or even De Kwaade Luim in Bosman, 1928.

Performance history in South Africa
1818: Produced in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 5 November in their own theatre. Wrongly listed by the company and/or Bosman as De Kwade Luim.

1827: Produced in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 21 April (again wrongly listed by the company and/or Bosman as De Kwade Luim), with De Brandschatting (Von Kotzebue).

1833: Produced in De Liefhebbery Tooneel, Cape Town, in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 24 August (this time listed by the company and/or Bosman as De Kwaade Luim), with De Engelsche Goederen (Von Kotzebue).

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