Jakob Riem en di Varki

Jakob Riem en di Varki, ("Jacob Riem and the Pig") by Janni. A comic dialogue. Published in Di bedriegers : Magrita Prinslo, en ander Afrikaanse dramas en samesprake tot 1900 by F.C.L. Bosman. Voortrekkerpers, 1942. 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. Appears to have been among the very first plays specifically performed in Afrikaans.

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