Jan en Katrina

by Janni. A comic dialogue. Possibly first performed in Uitenhage in 1892, then by the CJV of the Nieuwe Kerk ("New Church") in the Wicht Hall of in Cape Town c.a. 1893-1894. Performed by Volksteater, Pretoria in 1952 as part of the Van Riebeeck Festival festivities. Published in Di bedriegers : Magrita Prinslo, en ander Afrikaanse dramas en samesprake tot 1900, by F.C.L. Bosman. Voortrekkerpers, 1942. Appears to have been among the very first plays specifically performed in Afrikaans.

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