Een Misverstand

There appear to have been a number of Dutch plays called Een Misverstand ("A misunderstanding") that have been performed in South Africa over the years.

Not to be confused with the musical piece ''Het Misverstand, of Elk is Een Dief in Zijne Nering (Anon)'.

= Een Misverstand is Dutch one act comedy by P. Faddegon or J. Schuitemaker=

The original text
Bosman suggests the author may have been by a certain P. Faddegon, a local amateur and writer from Cape Town, even though he indicates that, according to the programme and a Dutch source, it was said to be by the author of Een Geschandvlekte Naam, i.e. by J. Schuitemaker te Purmerend. If so, the play in question was most probably a local adaptation (and renaming) of the one act comedy Oom en Neef, of Misverstand op Misverstand ("Uncle and Nephew, misunderstanding upon misunderstanding"), itself a free adaptation of a French piece, prepared for the Rederijkers and published by G.T. Bom in Amsterdam in about 1872.

Performance history in South Africa
1874: Performed as Een Misverstand by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town on 1 September, with Arthur de Beaumont, of De Franctireur van Neufville (Van der Stempel).

Performance history in South Africa
1898: Performed by the Gedenkschool der Hugenoten in Paarl on 10 December, as part of an "entertainement". L.W.B. Binge (1969, pp.27 and 43) maintains this was the first programme he could find of a performance in Afrikaans, though the programme listed it as a "Dutch Play". The author later assured him it had in fact been in Afrikaans.

1914: Performed on 28 September 1914 by the Debating Society of Nooitgedacht South in the Oudtshoorn district.